In the freak show of Mama Araña’s Circus, Ezra is forced to use a talent he fears. He dreams of escaping the circus and the demon-infested Avernine Territory, but when his chance comes, everything goes wrong. Sentenced to death for murder and witchcraft, Ezra’s survival rests upon a pair of priests who specialize in killing people like him. Can Ezra keep his talent hidden and stay alive, or will a threat to the entire Territory force him to use it and risk execution?
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Gunmage is the first book in Tales of the Avernine, a dark fantasy western series that takes readers to a cursed land of demons and witches, gunslingers and inquisitor-priests.
M.S. (Michael Stephen) Hund is the author of the historical fantasy series, THE DREAMBETWEEN SYMPHONY. His other series, novels, and short stories run the gamut of speculative fiction from westerns to the occult to hard SF. Someday he hopes to live in a hobbit-hole with a well-stocked library and an equally well-stocked wine cellar or in a small European city with good rail links and better cafés. If you can’t locate him in either of those locales, you can make his acquaintance online at: www.mshund.com