The undead are here and only the Deacons stand in their way.
The Order of the Deacons, stand as protectors of the Empire, guardians against ghost possession, sentinels warding off the malevolent haunting of the geists.
Sorcha Faris, the most powerful deacon of the Order, finds herself thrust into an unwanted partnership with a total novice, Merrick Chambers. That's bad enough, but when they are dispatched to an isolated village to counter a surge of violent geist activity, they find their fate bound with Raed Rossin. Shapeshifter and Pretender to the Imperial throne he bears a terrible curse which endangers them all.
As they investigate, the strange settlement is reveled to be haunted by a undead creature more predatory and horrifying than any encountered before. Together they quest to uncover the mystery of twisted rituals passed down through the dark reaches of history intent on striking at the heart of the Empire.
Can three powerful and troubled people discover a way to work together to save the citizens and themselves?
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Geist was one of those stories that I couldn't stop coming. The original nugget of an idea actually came after I watched one of those buddie cop movies. I imagined a fantasy version of that, with an older experienced female, and a young rookie male. Sorcha and Merrick were born, and once I added a rakish shape-shifter the world was born.
New Zealand born fantasy writer and podcaster Philippa (Pip) Ballantine is the author of the Books of the Order, The Chronicles of Art, The Shifted World series.
She is also the co-author of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series with her husband, Tee Morris. Phoenix Rising won the Airship Award for best written steampunk, and was the number eight best Science Fiction book of 2011 according to Goodreads.com. The Janus Affair was the seventh most popular science fiction book of 2012 on Goodreads.com, and won the Steampunk Chronicles Reader's Choice Award for Best Fiction. Dawn's Early Light won the RT Reviewer's Choice Award for best Steampunk of 2014.
In non-fiction, Pip has co-written with Tee Social Media for Writers from Writer's Digest.
Her awards include an Airship, a Parsec, the Steampunk Chronicle Reader's Choice, the RT Reviewer's Choice Award for steampunk, and a Sir Julius Vogel.
Philippa currently resides in Manassas, Virginia with her husband, daughter, and a furry clowder of cats.Visit heronline at pjballantine.com or follow her on Twitter @PhilippaJane.
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