Nightwatch on the Hinterlands
Set in the universe of Rory Thorne, this new standalone sci-fi mystery follows an unlikely duo who must discover the motive behind an unusual murder.
THE TEMPLAR: When Lieutenant Iari hears screams in the night, she expects to interrupt a robbery or break up a fight. Instead she discovers a murder with an impossible suspect: a riev, one of the battle-mecha decommissioned after the end of the last conflict, repurposed for manual labor. Riev don't kill people. And yet, clearly, one has. Iari sets out to find it.
THE SPY: Officially, Gaer is an ambassador from the vakari. Unofficially, he's also a spy, sending information back to his government, unfiltered by diplomatic channels. Unlike Iari, Gaer isn't so sure the riev's behavior is just a malfunction, since the riev were created using an unstable mixture of alchemy and arithmancy.
As Gaer and Iari search for the truth, they discover that the murderous riev is just a weapon in the hands of a wielder with wider ambitions than homicide - including releasing horrors not seen since the war, that make a rampaging riev seem insignificant...
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K. Eason
K. Eason has always been drawn to questions that live in the gray areas, what happens when myth collides with politics, when technology wears the mask of magic, and when the stories we inherit don’t quite fit the world we live in. That curiosity has carried into every corner of her fiction, from spacefaring fairy-tale heroines to murder-mystery mecha stalking the ruins of forgotten civilizations.
Her first trilogy, On the Bones of Gods, introduced readers to a world where Viking-like magic and Roman-shaped empire clashed in brutal, beautiful ways. With The Thorne Chronicles she leapt into space, blending the wit of a fairy tale with the grit of political science fiction in How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse and its sequel. Most recently, The Weep (Nightwatch on the Hinterlands and Nightwatch Over Windscar) fused alien ruins, detective intrigue, and magical technology into stories that feel at once intimate and expansive. Across all these series runs a constant thread: a fascination with power, privilege, and the choices that shape identity.
The Weep Series
The Weep is not just a wound in the world, it is a lingering reminder of what happens when ambition and miscalculation collide. Out of that tear seep horrors from beyond, creatures that do not belong, and echoes of a war humanity barely survived. Against this backdrop unfolds a story that blends science fantasy with mystery, where duty, politics, and survival collide in ways as perilous as the monsters stalking the dark.
The Weep Series consists of two books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
Main series The Thorne Chronicles
