Tales of the Secret City

In Hell's Kitchen, where magic and mayhem are just part of the neighborhood, Vinny "The Charm" Caruso has carved out a reputation as a boxer with supernatural flair. His charm magic gives him an edge in and out of the ring, allowing him to navigate the underworld of magical fight clubs and supernatural politics. When Factory Fire Ghosts abduct Angela, Vinny's girlfriend and a gifted healer, he's thrust into a race against time. What begins as a rescue mission quickly spirals into something far more dangerous as Vinny uncovers a plot orchestrated by Duchess Morana, a powerful Fae noble. Alongside his mentor Mickey, the street-wise Sal, and a half-Fae detective named Ironwood, Vinny must infiltrate the Ninth Circle Casino. There, he discovers that Angela's healing abilities are the key to an ancient ritual, which could tear the veil between worlds and reshape reality itself. As the autumn equinox approaches, Vinny and his allies face down the Wild Hunt, disrupt a centuries-old magical conspiracy, and confront hidden truths about Angela's bloodline that trace back to the infamous Factory Fire. With his charm magic pushed to its limits and the future of Hell's Kitchen hanging in the balance, Vinny will have to fight smarter and harder than ever before-because this time, the stakes are higher than just his next win in the ring.

This is a New York rotten to its magical core. This is the Secret City, where gargoyles roost on fire escapes, were-rats work the night shift at hex-diners, and sorcery and circuitry sing the same siren song. Navigating these garish canyons is Nova Swann, a renegade urban druid and veil-walker who is part ghost, part spell-slinger, and all attitude. Her life of cynical solitude shatters when a cryptic message lures her into an impossible heist: to breach the impenetrable guild-fortress of Babylon. What she finds within is no treasure, but an ancient, dreaming consciousness-a god in the wires known as the Sleeper. The encounter leaves her forever changed. Now, Nova is the unwilling key in a war for the soul of reality itself. A series of cosmic horrors, each more terrifying than the last, are awakening to reclaim the world. The Architect has decreed that chaos must be contained and consciousness itself is a flaw in the cosmic design. But it never accounted for Nova-the wild card in a deck stacked against humanity. To save everything, she must embrace the very chaos the universe wants to erase and prove that some equations can only be solved by breaking them.

In the sweltering summer of 1977, the Bronx is burning-but not all fires are created equal. Ezra Levine, a bodega night clerk with a hidden talent for earth magic, prefers to keep his head down and his powers under wraps. But when an ancient golem crumbles before his eyes and an otherworldly inferno threatens to consume his beloved borough, Ezra is thrust into a shadowy world of supernatural politics and age-old conflicts. Paired with a technomancer firefighter and guided by a mysterious santería priestess, Ezra must navigate a treacherous magical underworld hidden beneath the gritty streets of New York City. As he uncovers a conspiracy that links mystical arson to all-too-human greed, Ezra grapples with his growing powers and the moral gray areas that come with them. With the Bronx as a tinderbox of racial tensions and urban decay, Ezra faces an impossible choice: destroy the fire elemental to save his home, or risk everything to redeem both the spirit and his troubled borough. In this gritty urban fantasy noir, Steven Savile blends the mystical with the mundane, weaving real historical events with a tapestry of diverse magical traditions.

In a New York City where Fae factions and supernatural entities lurk beneath the surface, Johnny Ironwood is the half-Fae private eye who keeps the peace between the magical and the mundane. Johnny navigates the secret Faerie courts, dream demons, and otherworldly outlaws threatening the city's unsuspecting mortals. When a string of gruesome murders and a looming apocalyptic plot threaten to shatter the boundaries between the Fae and mortal worlds, Johnny must confront his own inner demons and forge uneasy alliances to unravel the mystery before the city succumbs to chaos. With the help of his network of contacts, including the alluring witch Áine Moonwhisper and the ghoulish Wights, Johnny delves deeper into the mystery, uncovering a sinister plot orchestrated by the nightmare king Somnus. The investigation leads him to the heart of the Oneiros, where he discovers a plan to resurrect the ancient Devourer, a primordial entity capable of consuming both the Dreaming and the Waking World. With the fate of New York City and the entire world hanging in the balance, Johnny must forge uneasy alliances, battle his way through the nightmare realm, and ultimately face off against Somnus himself.