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A Mouthful of Dust
A Fantasy Novella by Nghi Vo
Book 6 of the The Singing Hills Cycle Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Dark Fantasy,
- Mystery,
- Standalone Novella,
- Small Town
This book is for you if you're into...
- Folk horror with famine and monsters lurking in the shadows
- Traveling storytellers unraveling secrets in haunted river towns
- Standalone novellas with recurring companions and dark mysteries
Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle.
Wandering Cleric Chih of Singing Hills and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant come to the river town of Baolin chasing stories of a legendary famine. Amid tales of dishes served to royalty and desserts made of dust, they discover the secrets of what happens when hunger stalks the land and what the powerful will do to hide their crimes.
Trapped in the mansion of a sinister magistrate, Chih and Almost Brilliant must learn what happened in Baolin when the famine came to call, and they must do so quickly...because the things in the shadows are only growing hungrier.
The novellas are standalone stories linked by the Cleric Chih, and may be read in any order.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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