num_pages: 328
description: YOU MUST LET BLOOD TO GET BLOODNew Mexico 1867. As consort to resurrected Mayan goddess Ixchel hexslinger Reverend Asher Rook has founded Hex City the first place in all of human history where magicians can live and work together safely. But this tenuous peace is is threatened by the approach of Rook's former lover Chess Pargeter bent on revenge over Rook's betrayal as he kills his way toward the very same spot dragging Pinkerton agent-turned-outlaw Ed Morrow along with him. Because Chess sacrificed in Ixchel's name has become far more than just a hex: his very presence has torn a crack in the world remaking everything around him. And as the cycle of Chess's power approaches its climax Chess Morrow and a young spiritualist named Yancey Coldercaught up in Chess's vendettawill all have to shed yet more blood as they face down his mysterious patron demon known only as the Enemy . . . along with every other enemy Chess has already made along the way.
language: English
title: A Rope of Thorns
publisher: ChiZine Publications