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CANADIAN WINTERS HAVE A WAY OF REVEALING A CITY'S TRUE NATURE.
In Montréal, winter strips away warmth, patience, and mercy, leaving only truth in its wake.
When a mutilated body is found carefully arranged on the altar of Saint-Stanislas, the truth it reveals is something the city's leaders cannot afford to acknowledge.
It is not a random murder.
It is a theological lesson, written in sanctified silver dust and esoteric symbols that gnaw at the reader's sanity.
Mayor Justine Macleod and National Security Counsel Nellie Tremblay know that public panic will fracture the province. To control the narrative, they need someone who can read the ritual. They need Charles Arthur.
A brilliant, socially awkward jurist trained in the dangerous, hidden doctrines of the Jesuit Order, Charles walked away from the occult world to practice international law. But the geometry of the crime scene bears the unmistakable signature of his former mentor, Father Adrien Leduc. Leduc has desecrated a church to reopen a door: convinced that humanity's insistence on compassion has corrupted the natural order of consequence, the radical priest has invited an ancient, unyielding intelligence to audit and punish the city.
Now, Montréal is the stage for a terrifying curriculum. Citizens die in bizarre, physics-defying "corrections." A child's soul is borrowed for a cosmic demonstration. As the city teeters on the brink of a metaphysical siege, Charles realizes that this enemy cannot be defeated with bullets, holy water, or banishments.
Because in this universe, monsters do not merely hunt you: They file cosmic paperwork first.
To save the two million fragile lives in his city, Charles—accompanied by Queen Permanence, an Avatar of Eternity housed in the form of a black cat—must step into the Hall of Swords, the supreme court of reality. There, before a tribunal of archangels, ancient gods, and demon princes, he will not wage a physical war: he will litigate against Hell itself.
But cosmic law demands an absolute price.
Will Charles Arthur sacrifice his own soul to balance the ledger, or will Montréal finally learn the devastating cost of truth?
