He knows he shouldn’t help her. She’ll only slow him down. But he finds it impossible to walk away from her.
The wait is over! Kira Blackwood’s debut urban fantasy thriller is available now in paperback and ebook at all major book retailers.
The players
Michael, who possesses the power to weaponize other’s bad memories, but can also use them to heal. He’s been on the run from a doomsday cult who believes he is the key to fulfilling their goal of plunging the world into a place of arcane darkness.
Chelsea, a recent college grad, who has a strange encounter with handsome but secretive new bartender at the local college bar on the eve of graduation. She feels like she’s on the edge of a new phase in her life, but everything changes when her parents are murdered by an unknown assailant.
FBI Special Agent Theodore “Theo” Jotun, who has his own secrets. He’s playing the system from the inside and has been watching Chelsea and searching for Michael for a very long time. Bringing them together is his top priority, and the final piece of his dark plan.
This suspense-filled thriller will keep you reading well into the night.
About the Author
Kira Blackwood has written many things under many names. The Mirrors by Which I End the World is her first major work under this one. She’s also died at least once, maybe four or five times, depending on who you ask. Her work is as unapologetic and weird as she is. Don’t ask her about raising pet chickens unless your schedule’s clear.
An Excerpt from the Book
Michael Sanders’s life could be contained in a fourteen by eighteen-inch suitcase, and all proof of his existence could be stowed away in a Chinese food take-out carton. This was just as well because Michael Sanders did not exist. The fact that he did not exist did not stop him from being an ordinary looking man in his mid-twenties who hadn’t held a stable job for more than a few months at a time, just as it did not stop his eyes from opening when he heard three car doors shut below his motel room window.
His heart pumped a wave of cortisol and adrenaline through his bloodstream. It was a situation he had become all too used to. He always slept fully clothed, with the exception of his socks and shoes, which were wearing thin.
Through the broken metal slats of his window, he saw the same details he always saw: a black car with tinted windows and no plates driven by men wearing dark, long-sleeved shirts and matching pants, as if dressed in shadow. The street beyond was desolate, the parking lot empty, the sky blank. Neither man nor God would protect him.
He skipped socks, shoving his feet into sneakers, then snagged his toiletry kit from the bathroom sink. He shoved it into the constantly packed suitcase he had left at the foot of his bed. He made sure it stayed packed, ready to grab at a moment’s notice, whether to keep him organized for a hasty escape or to use as a blunt weapon if they got the drop on him. The man crouched low, listening to where his would-be abductors were.
The sound of splintering wood came from somewhere nearby as somebody kicked in a door. Damn it, they’re close. Another slam, this time from the room next door. They’re learning. They split up this time.
Michael crouched behind the corner of the bed, pressing himself flat against a floor stained by countless former tenants. The doorknob rattled shortly before the door itself exploded inward in a shower of splinters, dust, and rusted hinges. His eyes, which had adjusted to the darkness, focused on the looming silhouette of his latest stalker. A hand wreathed in darkness snaked through the air to the nearby light switch, temporarily blinding him.
Mentally spouting off a string of obscenities, he listened as the soon to be assailant trudged into the bathroom, flicking a switch in there as well. He would only have one moment, one chance to get out of there, but there would be no way of leaving undetected if he didn’t make the first move. Michael counted to five and darted from his cover, flicking the lights off.
— The Mirrors by Which I End the World
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