Terms of Surrender
Felix Rossini is a man
with a thousand enemies. Framed for murder, hunted by Mirenze's
protectors as well as the criminal underworld, he struggles to survive
and fight back against the conspiracy that has marked him for death. A
conspiracy of another kind is brewing across the ocean, as the corrupt
aristocracy draws Livia Serafini’s oldest friends into a plot to destroy her. If she can’t find a way to overcome the occult infection spreading through her veins, they may not have to.
And in the shadows,
the Owl prepares to wage bloody war against the most dangerous foe of
all - her own coven - as she leads her disciples in a quest to recover a deadly relic. It's a showdown that will end where it all began: in
the frozen hell of Winter's Reach, under a rain of fire.
From a
rebel uprising in the west, to a broken crusade in the east, the
dominoes fall one by one. Where they land will determine the fate of an
empire.
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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.
