The Trick to Brothels

<p>When a captured mage is told to buy his life with a story Carnelian doesn't spin a grand saga or a bloody war. He tells the truth. Or at least the kind that cuts.</p><p>His tale begins in a brothel run by witches and demons-a found family more human than most men he's known. But the story darkens circling a friend who weaponized guilt and turned Carnelian's own identity into his greatest fear.</p><p>Witty lyrical and haunting <em>The Trick to Brothels</em> is a dark fantasy memoir of a sharp-tongued anti-hero who survives by refusing to be anything less than himself.</p>