Friends, I am equal parts nervous and excited to make this announcement: Dig Two Graves, the new Daniel Faust adventure, is coming out on April 26th, two weeks from today. This isn’t just a big installment in the series: it’s a landmark, as the first book (The Long Way Down) debuted on the exact same day, ten years ago.
I’ve been doing this for ten years. I honestly didn’t expect to live that long. But I’m still here and writing and creating, thanks to you.
So, uh…you don’t mind if I get a little weird with it, do you? (Warning to my new friends reading the series in Germany, this is book eleven so there are major spoilers ahead.) Here’s the back-cover synopsis:
Daniel Faust is back from hell and out for blood. He has a new face and a deadly mission: to find the tiger-queen Naavarasi and his own traitorous brother, and put them both six feet underground.
But when Naavarasi’s shape-shifting minions abduct one of Daniel’s own, it’s time for a desperate rescue. With his demonic lover Caitlin and his precocious apprentice Melanie, he follows a thread of nonexistent airlines, ghostly packages, and urban legends all the way to Springfield, a small town with big secrets.
A small town where everything closes at sundown and people are warned not to go out after dark. A small town where the library offers books written by authors who never existed, and the locals seem to be acting out parts assigned by an invisible director. There’s only one way into Springfield. There’s no easy way out. And as the fabric of reality begins to warp and change all around them, Daniel and company will have to learn a new set of rules if they want to survive and put an end to Naavarasi’s twisted design.
This is a rescue mission, but there’s more at stake than a single life. The consequences are cosmic. He’s gunning for a pair of heads tonight but before his work is done, Daniel Faust may have to drop enough bodies to fill a graveyard.
(So yeah, stuff’s gonna hit the fan. Also this is the book where the identity of the Paladin is finally revealed, a major antagonist is dealt with once and for all, and we pave the way to the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.)