The dead don’t rest easy in the Old World.

Necromancers summon evil spirits from the underworld and bind them into corpses, creating shambling servants called wights. And if a wight bites you? You might join their ranks.

They are a type of algomancer: feeding on pain and fear like other dark sorcerers. They bring their own particular horror to the world of the Hunter Healer King trilogy.

Imagine 19th century Budapest, but with airships overhead, monsters in the shadows, and an elected emperor who’s mostly a figurehead.

Welcome to Noricum, the sprawling empire where the Hunter Healer King trilogy takes place. It’s a land of steam-powered innovation and ancient bloodlines, where Dr. Maxim os Storm hunts algomancers through gaslit streets and Chloe Fortebat discovers that the “Old World” is far stranger than she ever imagined.

Not All Werewolves Are Created Equal

In the world of the Hunter Healer King trilogy, lupomancers are shapeshifting sorcerers who can magically mark living people, transforming them into werewolves who must obey their commands. And the lupomancers themselves? They’re algomancers: dark sorcerers who feed on pain and fear, who can take wolf form at will.

This is the threat Chloe Fortebat faces in Wolf’s Trail. This is why she needs Dr. Maxim os Storm, one of the few hunters who knows how to break a lupomancer’s mark before it’s too late.