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There’s nothing wrong with Aurora. A successful art lawyer, she has returned to Mexico to celebrate a recent campaign for the repatriation of stolen artefacts—in particular a mysterious statue of an Aztec god, The Flayed One. But Mexico City isn’t as she remembered. Nothing is. Elements...
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There’s nothing wrong with Aurora.
A successful art lawyer, she has returned to Mexico to celebrate a recent campaign for the repatriation of stolen artefacts—in particular a mysterious statue of an Aztec god, The Flayed One.
But Mexico City isn’t as she remembered. Nothing is. Elements of her past hint at darkness and power, and reality begins to crack and warp the streets.
There’s nothing wrong with Aurora.
As Aurora’s sanity unravels, she must pry apart her family’s secrets and accept the simplest of truths: The Flayed One cannot stay buried.
It wields all the destructive fury of a flayed god determined to avenge centuries’ worth of colonial devastation and greed.. – Cynthia Gómez, Ignyte-nominated author of Muñeca
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781250781529
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 26 November 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: Tor Nightfire
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 137.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Leopoldo Goût is a multidisciplinary artist, internationally published author, and Emmy-nominated producer. Born in Mexico City and trained at London’s renowned Central Saint Martins School of Art, Gout is known for blending memory, cultural legacy, and speculative visions of the future in his deeply personal and globally resonant works. His critically acclaimed novels include the Genius trilogy, Ghost Radio, Monarca, and Piñata, which was named one of Esquire’s Top 10 Horror Novels of 2023.
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