A Tree of Bones

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The rousing conclusion to Filess remarkable Hexslinger trilogy... A bravura performance from the author of A Book of Tongues and A Rope of Thorns (Publishers Weekly).

A new Civil War is brewing. With the city of Bewelcome as its headquarters, Allan Pinkertons Detective Agency leads a siege on Hex City, the town founded by Reverend Asher Rook and his consort, the Mayan goddess Ixchel. Monsters prowl the battleground, rocket trails of spells crisscross the sky, and an unnatural rain falls.

Sides must be taken, but Pinkerton-agent-turned-outlaw Ed Morrow, spiritualist Yancey Kloves, and even Rook must choose what ruin or redemption means to each of them. Meanwhile, Chess Pargeter gears up for the greatest fight of his lifeand death. A battle out of hell itself...

Praise for the Hexslinger Series

Gemmas been producing top-notch horror stories for years, and her weird Western Hexslinger trilogy is chock full of hellish horrors. Mike Allen, author of Unseaming

Potent mythology, complex characters, and dollops of creeping horror and baroque gore establish Filess Hexslinger series as a top-notch horror-fantasy saga. Publishers Weekly

Paints a stark, vivid, and gory picture of the wild west in the years following the Civil War... Filess latest is not for the squeamish but should delight fans of gothic Western fantasy and Central American myths. Library Journal

Ridiculously vivid... A magic-riddled, horror-strewn West with hexes running around wrecking reality and a spectrum of queer characters. Tor.com

Truly one-of-a-kind: violent, carnal and creepy. Fangoria

Author Bio

Gemma Files, a former film critic, journalist, screenwriter, and teacher, has been an award-winning horror author since 1999. She has published two collections of short work; two chapbooks of speculative poetry; the weird western Hexslinger Series; a story-cycle; and the standalone novel Experimental Film, which won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel and the 2016 Sunburst Award for Best Adult Novel. Files also has several story collections and a collection of poetry forthcoming.