Winter's Reach
Pope Benignus is dying,
and the man who takes his throne will hold the reins of an empire.
Conspiracies swirl like shadows around Livia, the pope's daughter, who
refuses to be anyone's pawn: chasing the whispers of a deadly coup, she
vows to expose the truth and save her church from disaster. Livia has
secrets of her own, though, and one wrong move could cost her life and
her soul.
Felix is the scion of a dying merchant house, a man
with just one chance to save his family and the woman he loves. His last hope lies in the snowbound hell of Winter's Reach, a former prison
colony turned "free city" under a brutal tyrant's reign.
Livia
and Felix have never crossed paths, but they've both been snared in a
far greater web than they can imagine. They - along with a pair of
veteran bounty hunters, an exiled politician, and a sadistic coven of
witches - are cogs in one man's apocalyptic plan for revenge. A plan
which, if it succeeds, will leave an entire nation in flames.
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Craig Schaefer
Craig Schaefer writes where the lines between crime and sorcery blur, and where every bargain comes with a cost. Under that name, Heather Schaefer has built an interconnected body of work that threads through the neon alleys of Las Vegas, the halls of occult conspiracies, and worlds shaped by betrayal, devotion, and blood-stained magic.
Her breakthrough came with The Long Way Down in 2014, the first Daniel Faust novel. What began as the tale of a streetwise magician hustling through Vegas’s underbelly grew into a sprawling series praised for its relentless pacing and razor-edged mix of noir and urban fantasy. Schaefer expanded the universe with Harmony Black, turning the camera on a covert government team tasked with confronting supernatural threats, and with The Revanche Cycle, a Renaissance-tinged epic of politics and power. Though distinct in setting, these works share a gravitational pull toward moral ambiguity: damaged survivors, corrupt institutions, and the fragile bonds that can either redeem or destroy.
Revanche Cycle
A world away from Daniel Faust and Harmony Black - though perhaps not as far as you might think - awaits the intrigue and danger of The Revanche Cycle. As Pope Benignus lies in his deathbed and an empire awaits his successor, a madman puts his apocalyptic plan for revenge into motion. His web of conspiracy will snare an unlikely gathering of souls, from a barmaid and her lover, to a pair of low-rent bounty hunters, to the pope's iron-willed daughter, their roads converging in a broken, war-ravaged land.
Revanche Cycle consists of four books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
