[Markhat 08] • The Five Faces

"When Death writes your name, there is no erasing it. "

"The Markhat Files, Book 8"

It starts as a typical day in the park, with Markhat tracking a bully the law won t touch, and promising a little girl he ll find her missing dog, name of Cornbread.

But as the sun sets over Rannit, a new menace creeps out with the dark. There s a killer on the loose, and Markhat the finder suspects magic behind the murders. Each victim receives a grisly drawing depicting the place, time, and manner of death. Not a single victim has escaped the brutal fate drawn for them and now Markhat s own death-drawing has arrived.

The mighty Dark Houses are also falling, one by one, as terror grips Rannit s streets. Even sorcerers are dying, their magic failing, their blood spilled as easily as that of any other.

With time and hope running out, Markhat races to outwit a creature that can see outside Time itself. Before the picture of his own death becomes stained with real blood.

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