The Empress of Fire

<p><strong>In a dreamlike Hobart where whispering shades steal memory and face Jack wakes with one terrible mistake behind him: he cut himself from his handmade tarot deck. His only tether to the living world is a battered red BIC whose flame costs him breath - and whose last flicker will kill him.</strong></p><p><strong>Then he meets Ally a fiery survivor with half of Jack's card and a missing tether of her own: a Redhead match burned at the wrong end. Together they turn junk into charms and trinkets into shrines carving boundary lines through an eerie upside-down Tasmania while renegades hunt their talismans and Faceless things stalk their names.</strong></p><p><strong>To return to the real world Jack must rebuild his deck before the lighter runs dry. To save Ally he'll gamble that creation - and love - can outburn oblivion.</strong></p><p><strong>Gritty and tender punk and mythic The Empress of Fire is an urban-fantasy horror about art as a weapon memory as magic and two people who choose each other in the dark.</strong></p><p></p>