Ancient blood. Slavic magic. Hidden Chicago. A reluctant witch is drawn into the orbit of the Oldbloods — and a curse old enough to have become myth.
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Music: "Chaoticism" — Daniel Ciurlizza & Joni Fuller
She spent years treating magic like a locked room. Then the dead started speaking, the wards started answering, and every powerful thing in Chicago began looking her way.
Ancient, exacting, and terrifyingly composed. Dmitri Morozov does not need spectacle to be feared.
The Oldbloods are the oldest known vampire lineage — ancient, living curses created through a desperate bargain with Koschei the Deathless. Most vampires trace their existence, directly or indirectly, to the shadow of what happened to the Morozovs. Yet the oldest stories still whisper of things that drank blood long before the Oldbloods walked the earth.
The Shadow of the Ancestors is one of several covens hidden throughout Chicagoland — an old Slavic order with roots in the former Soviet Union, built on blood, memory, duty, and the belief that the dead are not gone, only waiting to be obeyed.
Most wolves are born into bloodlines, but some are made through old ritual, willing sacrifice, and the judgment of the Moon Goddess. Across Illinois and the neighboring states, packs survive through territory, family, law, and devotion. Chicago's Slavic pack is only one of them — loyal, territorial, emotional, and far more human than the monsters who underestimate them.
Devils in the Windy City opens a planned urban fantasy series following witches, Oldbloods, wolves, and the ancient curse tying them all to Chicago’s hidden supernatural world.
Chicago is only the beginning.
Title: Devils in the Windy City
Series: Book One of a planned urban fantasy series
Author: Elena Chaikin
ISBN: 9798993386720
Genres: Fantasy • Horror • Urban Fantasy • Paranormal Romance