Bringer of Dust (The Talents, Bk. 2)

With the original orsine destroyed, the sanctuary of Cairndale lies in ruins — and their friend Marlowe has vanished. Now, hope rests on a legendary second orsine, long believed lost and perhaps mythical. As bodies begin to surface in the shadow of Cairndale — wrapped in the corrupted dust of the drughr — the group of Talents realize a new, more ferocious drughr has risen, seemingly able to walk in the world of the living at will. Worse, a sinister figure known only as the Abbess seeks the dust for her own dark ambitions. 

From the underworld of London’s exiles to a sunlit Sicilian villa to the catacombs beneath Paris, the Talents must confront bone-witches, mud glyphics, and a netherworld house of twilight — racing against time to rescue their friend and prevent the dead from reclaiming the living.

“Miro has a gift for big twists grounded in sympathetic characters... Readers of epic and dark fantasy will enjoy the bloody, visceral magic and suspenseful twists here.” — Booklist

“Daunting... Fans of the first book will not be disappointed.” — Publishers Weekly