A Rope of Thorns

The second book in the “top-notch horror-fantasy saga,” following A Book of Tongues , is “a spectacular blend of Aztec religion and Western gunslinging ( Publishers Weekly ). Welcome to Hex City. Population: magicians. Thanks to hexslinger “Reverend” Asher Rook, sorcerers now have a sanctuary where they can live and work in peace. But a storm is coming—a tempest known as Chess Pargeter. Infuriated by his former lover Rook’s betrayal and sacrificed in the name of the Mayan goddess who is Rook’s c