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"An all-out women-driven, queer, transgender, multiracial takeover of the Old West . . . and that's exactly what Melissa Lenhardt delivers in her unapologetically badass western, Heresy." - New York Times "Lenhardt has created a bold new story where women have taken their rightful place in the...

Detective Jonathan Bennet hasn’t been the same since a raid that went sideways and left his partner, Riley Chen, dead on the floor of a Haven chapel. Now, when he sleeps, he sees her blood on the blindfolded statues lining Haven’s walls. And when he’s awake? He drinks. But then the bodies start dropping. Fast. Clean. And untraceable. The media calls the killer Death’s Shadow. Their targets? The Haven’s enemies. The department wants Jonathan to stand down. Stay quiet.

In a near-future America where an iron-fisted theocracy weaponizes faith, Calvin has spent decades burying his true self, meticulously conforming to a system that demands absolute obedience. But when a profound, devastating encounter shatters his carefully constructed world, this disgraced former minister finds his authentic calling through an unexpected act of rebellion. Cast out and facing ruthless persecution, Calvin witnesses an act of shocking state-sanctioned violence that shatters his apathy.

The date is 1191. Aumary Belvoir is 17. Seventeen and bound by an oath so holy, he dare not break it. Unexpectedly thrust into the position of the warden of the Savernake, a woodland of 150 square miles in Wiltshire, will Aumary succeed in stamping his authority on the forest? He has also acquired a half brother he did not know he had. With the help of his experienced staff and his willing family, things go well. The surprise brother, Robert, proves a worthy assistant. Then the deaths begin.