Mourning Cloak

Kato Vorsok lost everything the day he was defeated at the gates of his enemy's stronghold. Deserted by his god, estranged from his people and living in exile, he wants nothing to do with his old life.Until the night he encounters a wounded mourning cloak, a demon who can walk through walls and spear a man's heart with a fingernail.She knows who he is. She speaks his dead wife's name. And she needs his help.Kato failed once. Can he fight again-and win? Rabia Gale breaks fairy tales and fuses fantasy and science fiction. She loves to write about battered-but-still-battling heroes, transformation and redemption, and things from outer space. In her spare time, she reads, doodles, eats chocolate, and homeschools her children.Rabia grew up in hot humid Karachi, Pakistan. She then spent almost a decade in the frozen American Northeast among the trees, mountains, and moose. She now lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and three children.