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In Vesper City, some things are meant to stay buried.
When Detective Nadia Blackwood is called to a ritualistic murder unlike anything she has ever seen, she expects to find a killer hiding behind superstition and symbolism. Instead, she finds an ancient symbol that shouldn't exist, a victim with no obvious connection to the others, and a trail of secrets leading deep beneath the city.
Then another body appears.
And another.
Each victim has been carefully chosen. Each murder follows a different ritual. And each crime bears the symbol of something Nadia has never heard of:
Veyr.
A forgotten god of knowledge.
As Nadia and her partner, Lucas Kane, descend into Vesper City's hidden history, they uncover abandoned temples, forbidden texts, and evidence that their city was built over something far older than anyone remembers.
With the help of the enigmatic occult informant Evangeline Crow, Nadia begins to question everything she knows about the past-and everything her own family has tried to hide.
Because humanity didn't destroy the old gods.
Humanity simply forgot them.
And someone is determined to make them remember.
The deeper Nadia digs, the closer the killer gets.
And somewhere in the darkness, something ancient is listening.
Some gods don't need to be worshipped to survive.
They only need to be remembered.