This epic fantasy series plunges readers into a city suspended over a bottomless abyss, where ancient powers and unresolved conflicts collide. Follow the intertwined destinies of an unlikely alliance between the last of the warrior angels and a ruthless assassin as they delve into a perilous chasm filled with secrets and betrayal. It's a tale of vengeance, redemption, and the struggle for survival in a dying world where the lines between good and evil blur.
For nine hundred generations, the city of Deepgate has hung suspended by giant chains over a bottomless abyss. In the unfathomable darkness below is said to reside the dread god Ulcis, with his army of ghosts. At the hub of the city itself rises the Temple, in one of whose many crumbling spires resides a youthful angel, Dill, the last of his line.
Volume 2 of 'The Deepgate Codex' takes us back into an amazingly colourful fantasy world where surprise and danger wait around every corner
`A theological fantasy with echoes of Gormenghast is both spellbinding and literary.' --Scotland on Sunday 'Fantasy excels at alternative theologies, and Campbell's pantheon is vividly imagined.' --Scotland On Sunday `Comparisons with Mervyn Peake (author of Gormenghast) are certainly justified, but Campbell brings a contemporary twist to a Peake-style gothic world - it's certainly something new, strange and compelling. '