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Sworn to the Night

The Wisdom's Grave Trilogy #1 / 3
by Craig Schaefer
Sworn to the Night (The Wisdom's Grave Trilogy #1) by Craig Schaefer
★ 10.00 / 2
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Marie Reinhart is an NYPD detective on the trail of a serial killer. When she sleeps, though, she dreams of other lives; she dreams of being a knight, in strange wars and strange worlds. On the other side of the city, Nessa Roth is a college professor trapped in a loveless marriage, an unwilling prop in a political dynasty. She's also a fledgling witch, weaving poppets and tiny spells behind closed doors.

When Marie's case draws her into Nessa's path, sparks fly. What comes next is more than a furtive whirlwind affair; it's the first pebbles of an avalanche. Nessa and Marie are the victims of a curse that has pursued them across countless lifetimes; a doom designed to trap them in a twisted living fairy tale, with their romance fated to end in misery and death.

They aren't going out without a fight. As they race to uncover the truth, forces are in motion across the country. In Las Vegas, a professional thief is sent on a deadly heist. In a Detroit back alley, witches gather under the guidance of a mysterious woman in red. Just outside New York, an abandoned zoo becomes the hunting-ground for servants of a savage and alien king. The occult underground is taking sides and forming lines of battle. Time is running out, and Nessa and Marie have one chance to save themselves, break the curse, and demand justice.

This time, they're writing their own ending.

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FantasyUrban Fantasy
Release date: January 2018
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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.

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Schaefer’s stories often carry the texture of lived history. Before writing full time, she immersed herself in folklore, crime reporting, and the ways myth bleeds into daily life. Those influences surface in her prose, lyrical when a moment demands wonder and unflinching when violence breaks through. She does not shy away from flawed heroes or hard questions, instead building narratives that sit at the uneasy crossroads of loyalty and betrayal, hope and ruin.

Now based in North Carolina, she continues to weave tales set in what she calls the First Story, a shared continuity linking her major works. A decade on from her first publication, her novels have been translated into multiple languages, drawing international readers into her haunted worlds.

Whether following Daniel Faust’s crooked path through casinos and covens, Harmony Black’s battles with monsters in the dark, or the political intrigue of The Revanche Cycle, readers come to Schaefer’s work expecting more than just magic. They come for the tension of lives balanced on the edge, where every choice carries a shadow.

The Wisdom's Grave Trilogy

An epic crossover between the Daniel Faust series, the Harmony Black series, and the Revanche Cycle.

The Wisdom's Grave Trilogy consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Sworn to the Night (The Wisdom's Grave Trilogy #1)
★ 10.00 / 2
Detonation Boulevard (The Wisdom's Grave Trilogy #2)
★ 8.00 / 1
Bring the Fire (The Wisdom's Grave Trilogy #3)
★ 10.00 / 1

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08/24/2018
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Anthony
13 books, 2 reviews
★★★★★★★★★★ 10 / 10

I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. I love Schaefer's Daniel Faust series but am not so keen on the Harmony Black books so I was prepared for the possibility that it wasn't going to grab me.


What I wasn't prepared for was that I literally didn't want to put the book down, so I stayed up all through the night and read the book in one go. The main protagonists (no spoilers) moved me, I even ended up caring for quite a few of the minor characters.

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This book does fit into the Daniel Faust and Harmony Black plots but you can read it quite independently, I think. On the other hand, why do that when you could have hours of good reading ahead of you?


So, if you like dark urban adult fantasy get this book. If you like Schaefer's other books then get this book and be ready to not put it down until you have finished.

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