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 Chicago’s hidden world began looking back.
Ancient, exacting, and terrifyingly composed. Dmitri Morozov has spent more than twelve centuries holding a cursed family together—and he does not need spectacle to be feared.
The Starokrovs are the first vampires: five Morozov siblings remade through a desperate bargain with Koschei the Deathless. Every modern vampire alive descends, directly or indirectly, from their blood, and every sireline carries a diluted echo of the original curse.
Ten’ Predkov—the Shadow of the Ancestors—is a Slavic-American coven founded in the United States by immigrant witches who carried older ancestral traditions with them. Its members guard bloodlines, memory, ritual, 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. Chicago’s Slavic wolves are bound by family, territory, pack law, and traditions carried across generations. Their loyalty runs bone-deep—and threatening one of their own means facing the entire pack.
Devils in the Windy City opens the Oldblood Chronicles, an urban fantasy series following witches, Oldbloods, wolves, and the ancient curse tying them to Chicago’s hidden supernatural world.
Chicago is only the beginning.
Title: Devils in the Windy City
Series: The Oldblood Chronicles • Book One
Author: Elena Chaikin
Publication Date: October 24, 2026
ISBN: 9798993386720
Genres: Urban Fantasy • Paranormal Romance • Dark Fantasy