Trust, But Verify

The Witch Who Came In From The Cold #2.5

by Lindsay Smith, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Ian Tregillis

The Cold War gets magical when spies brush shoulders with sorcerers in this genre-defying serial created by Lindsay Smith and Max Gladstone.

This is the 5th episode in the second season of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Lindsay Smith.

The Ice plots their move on the Hosts, enlisting local muscle whose loyalties are divided. Newcomer Van turns heads at the boxing ring and Bar Vodnář alike. Zerena grooms Tanya and Andula for her own secret endeavors.

Welcome to Prague, 1970: the epicenter in a Cold War of spies and sorcerers. The streets are a deadly chessboard on which the CIA and KGB make their moves, little dreaming that a deeper game is being played between the Consortium of Ice and the Acolytes of Flame, ancient factions of sorcery.

Genres: Urban Fantasy, Espionage

46 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2017

About the author

Lindsay is the author of multiple novels for young adults, including Sekret and A Darkly Beating Heart, as well as the comic series Black Swan. She is the showrunner and lead writer for Serial Box's The Witch Who Came In From the Cold, a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2017. Her short stories and comics have appeared in the anthologies A Tyranny of Petticoats, Strange Romance Vol. 3, and Toil & Trouble and on Tor.com. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and dog.