Bleeding Hearts: A Dark Journey Entwines... (The Night's Road)

Every prophecy demands a sacrifice. Every bargain demands blood. “She would be a mother right enough… A mother of monsters…”

The Free City of Hamburg stands untouched amidst the devastation of the Thirty Years' War. Its towering walls, vast wealth, and powerful garrison have spared it from the ruin consuming the Empire. But some evils cannot be kept outside the gates.

Solace von Tassau and her company of misfits, rogues and lost souls have come seeking answers, not refuge. Somewhere within Hamburg's crowded streets and bustling docks waits Aldous Licht—an ancient being of unimaginable power, a creature whispered of in fear and dread. To find Saul the Bloodless and the Red Company, sate her vengeance and save a world she will never know, Solace intends to trick a monster into revealing their whereabouts.

The problem is simple.

How do you fool a creature that knows everything?

As Solace ventures deeper into his web of bargains and secrets, she finds herself confronting more than the certainty of her own death. The Sinner's Stone left to her by her mother is awakening, unleashing powers she neither understands nor controls, while visions of the future threaten to drag her toward a fate she cannot escape.

Elsewhere, Ulrich faces a torment of his own. Caught between the woman who loves him and the mistress he cannot forsake, he discovers that Licht is not the company’s only enemy in the city, and he must confront the terrible consequences of a heart that has been left to bleed.

In a city built on trade, every secret has a price. Every bargain demands payment. And before the company leaves Hamburg, they may discover that the cost of survival is greater than any of them can bear as hearts, souls and minds entwine. Bleeding Hearts is the gripping eighth instalment of The Night's Road—a dark fantasy of prophecy, sacrifice, vengeance, and the monsters that dwell behind human faces.