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Ballad of the Bone Road

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Port Astor is a city of ghosts. Once home to the beautiful, brutal courts of the fae, forty years ago they vanished without explanation – and Port Astor decided to forget. But echoes of the fae still linger. Brix and Bellefeather are paranormal investigators, working to... Read More
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In the glittering city of Port Astor, where fae roads criss-cross human highways and ghosts whisper to the living, nothing is ever as it seems.

From Sunburst Award-winning author A. C. Wise, this dark fantasy of faith and fanaticism, doomed love and desperate bargains is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

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Port Astor is a city of ghosts. Once home to the beautiful, brutal courts of the fae, forty years ago they vanished without explanation – and Port Astor decided to forget. But echoes of the fae still linger.

Brix and Bellefeather are paranormal investigators, working to keep Port Astor's ghosts from consuming its citizens. Both have hauntings of their own: Belle shares her body with a demon, Belezial, while Brix has trapped the soul of his dead fiancée in the world of the living, unwilling to let her go.

While investigating a haunting at the glamorous Peony Hotel, the pair comes across a young couple tangled up in one of the city’s most infamous stories – Jimmy Valentine, idol of the silver screen and supposed favourite of a fae queen, has returned to haunt the Peony. But Jimmy is no mere ghost, and Brix and Belle soon realise his return is more intimately tied to their own hauntings than they could ever have imagined.

The fae have not forgotten that Port Astor once belonged to them. And their Hollow Queen won’t give up her kingdom so easily.

Ballad of the Bone Road by A.C. Wise intricately weaves a narrative of spectral intrigue and the inescapable ties of the past.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781835413784

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 January 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Titan Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 55.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 416

About the Author

A.C. Wise is the author of Hooked and the bestselling Wendy, Darling. She also has two short story collections published by Lethe Press, Catfish Lullaby, a novella published by Broken Eye Books (2019), and The Ghost Sequences, a short story collection published by Undertow Books (2021), which was shortlisted for a 2021 Bram Stoker Award. Her work has won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, as well as twice being a finalist for the Nebula Award, twice being a finalist for the Sunburst Award, and being a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. In addition to her fiction, she contributes semi-regular review columns to The Book Smugglers and Apex Magazine. Originally from Canada, she now lives in Pennsylvania, US. She tweets at @ac_wise.

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