The Hexslinger Omnibus

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ChiZine Publications, Dec 17, 2013 - Fiction - 900 pages
The award-winning author’s complete Hexsligner Trilogy—plus 3 new stories—set in a post-Civil War era full of dark magic: “A top-notch horror-fantasy saga” (Publishers Weekly).
 
A Book of Tongues: A Black Quill Award winner. After the Civil War, ex-Confederate chaplain turned outlaw “hexslinger” Asher Rook and his notorious lieutenant (and lover) Chess Pargeter are desperate to shatter the laws that prevent hexes from joining forces. But while they enter an unholy alliance with the Mayan goddess Ixchel, Pinkerton agent Ed Morrow is sent in to discover their magic secrets—and he’s about to literally ride through hell to get them.
 
A Rope of Thorns: As Ixchel consort, Asher Rook becomes the founder of Hex City, where magicians can live and work together. But Rook’s betrayed partner Chess Pargeter is on his way to exact his revenge, and he has former Pinkerton agent-turned-outlaw Ed Morrow along for the ride. Sacrificed to Ixchel, Chess now relies on a patron demon known as the Enemy for his power.
 
A Tree of Bones: A new Civil War is brewing in the southwest where wild magic and black science clash headlong. Though back with the Agency, Ed Morrow finds himself caught between factions, as Aztec trickster god Tezcatlipoca roams the battlefield wearing Chess’s face and body, sowing dissent as this thrilling series approaches its apocalyptic climax.
 
Experience the critically acclaimed series, as well as three new hexslinger short stories, full of “potent mythology, complex characters, and dollops of creeping horror and baroque gore” (Publishers Weekly).

About the author (2013)

Gemma Files is the winner of the International Horror Guild Award and the Black Quill Award. She has been nominated for the Lambda, the Stoker and the Shirley Jackson Awards.

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