Liminality

One wrong step. One unbreakable Rule. One fading hope. The world is governed by certain Rules. A medium cannot kill. A medium must not kill. Even if he has become a vampire. It begins with the breaking of a gentle monster. Lenny played human, kept his head down, never took a life, until Sebastian came. Torn away from his comfortable life, he is plunged into an endless night of manipulation, death, and blood. The only light in the dark is Kim, a young wizard tasked with destroying Sebastian. She is determined to save Lenny from the monster controlling him, but the monster growing inside him may be harder to kill.

A murder. A betrayal. A war. Jadwiga Dąbrowska, dream-eater, wakes from her own murder in a bizarre mirror world, chained body and soul to a terrible being, the Shadow's Face. With no choice but to obey the Shadow, she must contend with forces outside her understanding, fighting in a war that will never end. She can't be sure that her freedom was a fair price for her life. Kim Reed has spent years searching for a lost friend, but her search is interrupted by war. An ancient wizards' Circle is reaching for power, backed by black magic. With her own magic atrophied and her past making her an object of suspicion, she is not ready for politics, war, or spies manipulating her dreams. All she wants is her friend back, but there are Shadows standing in her way.

The Rules are breaking. Shadows are falling. War has come. In the midst of war, Kim thought she had found a bit of peace, a silver lining. Lenny, the friend she lost years ago, is safe, and the monster who kidnapped him is dead. But Lenny is not the man he was. There is something dark in him, growing stronger by the day. It has caught the attention of the Shadows that live between worlds. Allies are few and far between. Jadwiga, the mora, remains secretive and aloof, and Kim's old friend Daniel has a bloodier past than she had ever dreamed. And worse is coming than war. As Shadows close in, the Veil between worlds grows tangled and thick. Death has gone missing, and there are no more Rules in this game.