Nergüi is among of the last of her tribe of nomadic people reluctantly living as refugees behind the walls of a fortified city. Isolated and grieving after the public execution of her lover, she despairs at the injustice done to him and dreams of revenge. But she is just one woman, and can’t stand alone against the city’s powerful elite. She has something they don’t, however. She has ancient magic… … and she has the rats in her walls.
Author
Bracken MacLeod has worked as a martial arts teacher, a university philosophy instructor, for a children's non-profit, and as a trial attorney. His short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies including LampLight, ThugLit, and Splatterpunk and has been collected in 13 VIEWS OF THE SUICIDE WOODS by ChiZine Publications. He is the author of MOUNTAIN HOME, a novella titled WHITE KNIGHT, and STRANDED, from Tor Books. His newest novel, COME TO DUST, is coming from Journalstone/Trepidatio Press in June of 2017. He lives outside of Boston with his wife and son, where he is at work on his next novel.
