Dark & Zarus

A brand-new high fantasy adventure novel from
Lauren Cipollo and Matt Conant

“This book made me fall head over heels in love, then ripped my heart out of my chest, and stomped on it…and then gave me hope again?? I have emotional whiplash, and I’m thrilled about it. “

Charlie Knight

Author of Tempest, Take Me Home

Dark, a feline wanderer haunted by the fall of her clan, has lost everything: her home, her people, and her place among humankind.

Zarus, an exiled demon burdened with forbidden powers, carries the final message of a mysterious order.

Each is hunted by the same enemy: The Frayed , an army of psychic undead that has spread across the Kingdom like a plague. And each is drawn to Grasmere, the last bastion of humanity, where the long-lost phoenix god Reku slumbers.

To have any hope against the storm, Dark and Zarus must work together to unlock the ancient mysteries of the phoenix and root out the elusive force behind The Frayed.

But trust is hard to come by, and in a world of dying gods and doomsday propechies, a single doubt could doom them all.