The Price of Teeth

Book One of The Ashmark Trials. Damek Voronov is a monster hunter in a world scarred by the Rending — a magical catastrophe that tore open the boundary between the mortal world and the spirit realm. Hired for a contract that will take him to the origin of the wound, he travels north through seven trials: a corrupted healer in the sewers of Kosava, a boy who speaks to wolves, a prince's undead daughter, a forest spirit defending its home, a false god feeding on sacrifices, the ruins of the guild that trained him, and finally the Green Court itself — where the price of healing the world may be everything he is. For fans of dark Slavic fantasy, morally gray monster hunters, and stories where the real monsters wear human faces.