A Historical Fantasy Adventure of Magic Found, Love Lost, and Faith Regained
Guilty magic. Love stilled by faith. A world in fever.
A disgraced monk races against time to unlock powers that can save the woman he cannot forget. But his former seminary friend—now a Bolshevik spy—will stop at nothing to seize his magic, his soul, his love.
From the steppes of revolution-bound Russia to the opium-scented ports of the East and across America’s merciless frontier, the fates of two friends-turned-enemies collide in the world of violent sects, train heists, Ute brujas, and deadly secrets. Faith and fraud, tragedy and farce, death and rebirth—every choice exacts a price on the soul.
For readers of Romanov by Nadine Brandes and Deathless by Catherynne Valente, as well as those who enjoy the mind games of Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov and Castaneda's The Tales of Don Juan, From the Land of Cross and Star blends historical epic, dark magic, and moral intrigue in a tale you won’t forget.
