Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of
advocatus diaboli, to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering
a Virtue, a member of the ruling class of this mining town, in a new
world of dark fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of
Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse.
The year is 1883 and the mining town of Goetia is booming as prospectors
from near and far come to mine the powerful new element Divinity from
the high mountains of Colorado with the help of the pariahs of society
known as the Fallen. The Fallen are the descendants of demonkind living
amongst the Virtues, the winners in an ancient war, with the descendants
of both sides choosing to live alongside Abaddon's mountain in this tale
of the mythological West from the bestselling mastermind Rebecca
Roanhorse.