City of Mist

Every city has its myths.

Somewhere between the rain-slicked downtown canyon and the sourceless, shadowless daylight of Happyville, something ancient decided to put on a coat and get a day job. The City of Mist is a modern metropolis like any other — traffic, coffee, people who don't make eye contact — except that beneath the surface of ordinary life, the legends are waking up. Gods, monsters, folk heroes, and primordial forces have incarnated into flesh, walking around with mortgages and complicated feelings, slowly remembering what they are.

They're called Rifts, though that's not a word anyone uses. You might be one. You might have always been one.

The rest of the population — the Sleepers — moves through the City in a comfortable fog, the Mist doing its quiet, relentless work of making the impossible look like a gas leak or a trick of the light. It's the world's most effective cover story: reality itself, conspiring to keep its own secrets. And somewhere underneath all of it, beneath the neon and the noise and the accumulated weight of ten thousand forgotten legends, something older than the City is watching to see what happens next.

So far, nobody's had good news.

Characters

Some of us are new to our strange, inexplicable abilities. Some of us have lived with this for years. But all of us have been sucked into the otherworld hidden in the Mist.

Daniel Hill
Nostradamus
Downtown
Geoffrey Hill
The Brothers Grimm
Downtown
John Jones
The Pied Piper
Theatre District
Kevin Hatch
Whiro
Independence
Londres Ruiz Zepeda
El Charro Negro
The Old Quarter
Maeve O'Connor
Melinoë
Miller's Square
Sergei Petrov
Schrödinger's Cat
Old Quarter
Wren Mercer
Sekhmet
Whitecliff

Our Story

Part 1: Mainfest Destiny

Chapter Title
1 Discord
2 Chopping Block
3 Gravity
4 When the Cat's Away
5 Bad Apples
6 Capital Crimes
7 The Killing Fields
8 Far from the Tree, Part 1
8.5 Far from the Tree, Part 2
9 Queen of the Night
10 Kings of the Day

Part 2: The Harvest

Part 3: Jus in Bello

Book One Synopsis