A Crown of Hollow Bones by Gael Ashen is now available

We are pleased to announce that A Crown of Hollow Bones, the second book in Gael Ashen’s The Unmarked Courts series, is now available.

Persephone Melas has spent three thousand years being a minor death goddess. She has opinions about that word, minor. She also has a professorship in classical antiquity at the Imperial University of St. Petersburg and a very carefully maintained life that does not include Kas the Deathless.

Kas Bessmertnyi has been avoiding one specific woman for approximately eternity. He is excellent at it. Then death starts stuttering. In St. Petersburg, in the autumn of 1882, people who should die are not dying. The mechanisms of natural ending are backing up, and the crisis requires two kinds of knowledge no single being possesses: Greek death-lore and Slavic death-power. They are assigned to the same investigation. They are given adjacent apartments. They are expected to cooperate.

Dark romantasy for readers who like their immortals ancient, their tension annihilating, and their love stories written in the language of what you have been refusing to survive for.

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