J.P. Barrow — Dark Fantasy
The Costs of Magic — Coming Soon
When Gwen was ten years old, she watched through a pinhole as something murdered her mother and took her head. Fourteen years later, the killings have started again.
Get the magic system guide Read more →“Every ingredient that can heal can also harm. What closes a wound can open one. What salves a burn can start a fire.”
From The Costs of Magic
The worlds
Every magic asks something in return. The cost scales with the work. The trouble comes from those who forget to pay attention—or from those who know the cost exactly, and choose someone else to pay.
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The book
Armed with a dead woman’s dress, a talking cat, and the ability to feel every lie like a needle under her skin, Gwen infiltrates the royal court she used to inhabit. What she finds there is worse than a monster.
It’s family.
A dark fantasy about inherited power and the people who weaponize it. About parents and children and the terrible things love justifies. About the courage it takes to let yourself be known—fully, honestly, without the disguise—when everything you’ve survived has taught you that hiding is safer.