Veil of Death and Shadow (Order of Reapers) - Softcover

Holborn, Gray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1963893093 ISBN 13: 9781963893090

Publisher: Tattooed Trees Press LLC, 2025

Synopsis

A new dark paranormal / urban fantasy romance series set in a post apocalyptic world - by Gray Holborn, author of The Protector Guild series.

Six years ago, the tightly coiled barrier between the supernatural world and our own collapsed.
Nothing since has been the same. The end of the world was only the beginning.

My name is Mareena, and for as long as I can remember, nearly every person I've grown close to has met with an early demise: my parents, extended family, first boyfriend, first girlfriend...Look, you get the idea.
We'll be here all day if I lay the full list out for you.
I guess just be thankful I've never had a pet.

My solution to this meddlesome curse: Let no one close.
Well, no one except for my equally meddlesome best friend that is.

And curse or not, I've managed to build a pretty comfortable life, all things considered.
I have a home, a job, and a small community that I care about. Things I've fought tooth and nail to get—and protect.

My plan was supposed to be simple. Easy. Or so I thought.
Simplicity flew out the window the moment our city exploded with supernatural creatures I'd only ever read about in books.

Armed with my best friend, a crow that's set up permanent residence in our apartment (to be clear, absolutely *not* a pet—he's a freaking menace), and the increasingly terrifying visions I've been getting, I have to find a way to survive in this strange, new world.

But try as I might to protect my small world from death's embrace, death comes calling anyway—in the form of a few mysterious men that only I seem able to see. They wait on the sidelines, eager to pull me towards my destiny. Whether I'm ready for it or not.

Don't worry.
Death may be relentless, but so am I.


Veil of Death and Shadow is Book One in the Order of Reapers. It ends on a cliffhanger.

You can expect angst, romance, a stubborn FMC, and a chaotic post-apocalyptic world filled with equal parts danger and excitement. Mareena will end up with multiple partners - no choosing.

Tropes You Can Expect to Encounter:

• Why Choose (slow build)
• Apocalyptic Urban Fantasy
• Enemies to Lovers
• Forbidden Romance
• Forced Proximity
• Slow burn romance with early spice
• Found Family

Note:

This series takes place in The Protector Guild Universe, after the events in The World Undone. You do not have to read The Protector Guild before beginning Mareena's story, though you will encounter spoilers for the previous series.
And if you've read TPG, get ready for a few familiar faces ;)

The Gray-verse:

The Protector Guild

1. Academy of Protectors (enter HERE)
2. Forging the Guild
3. Dreams of Hell
4. Hell and Back
5. Abyss of Ruins
Saving the Protector (novella)
6. Fashioned by Flames
7. Dark Before Dawn
8. The World Undone

Order of Reapers:

1. Veil of Death and Shadow (or HERE)
2. Game of Styx and Stones

Edition details

• Publisher: Tattooed Trees Press LLC
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1963893093
• ISBN 13: 9781963893090
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496