Kate Seger

Alchemist of Dark Fantasy & Forbidden Magic

The Sweating Year by Kate Seger
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The Sweating Year

Early readers wanted for Book One of The Hollow Crown Duology. Death spares Anne Boleyn, and Henry VIII's court begins to rot from the miracle outward.

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Bone Sacrament — Kate Seger
NEW RELEASE · THE RELIQUARY DUET · THE FINALE

Bone Sacrament

The covenant is renewed, but it is not safe. Else and Callum carry the Bone Codex south through the January frost — toward a chapel in Provence with a foundation older than Rome, while the thing that opened its eye at Ashenmere wakes and follows. The road runs out of the village at last. The second and final book of the Reliquary Duet.

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NEW SERIES
A literary historical dark fantasy duet.

The Reliquary Duet

England, 1348. The Black Death has emptied Ashenmere of carts and pigs and children. Else inherits her mother’s cottage, her cracked mortar, and a covenant she didn’t choose — sealed in bone, renewed in blood, kept for generations by women no one put in the record.

The Bone Woman — Kate Seger

The Bone Woman

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Bone Covenant

Bone Covenant

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Bone Sacrament

Bone Sacrament

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Some guardians are chained by grief. Some are freed by it.

The Troth

A gothic monster-romance series of bound guardians and the mortals who unmake their chains. It begins beneath the fog of Victorian London, where a manuscript conservator wakes a Thames Guardian who has been chained for forty years.

The Beast Beneath the Bells — Kate Seger
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The Beast Beneath the Bells

London, 1888. A fire-marked diary, a manuscript conservator, and Sunder — a Thames Guardian made of horn and stone and silence, chained beneath Blackfriars Bridge for forty years by a man's grief.

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The cathedral doesn't just hold our prayers. It holds our debts.

Cathedral of the Crows

A haunting historical dark fantasy series. From the green magic of the prequel novella When the Iron Rusts, to the repressed desire of Mirror Heart and the costly choices of Gilded Blood, experience a world where ancient cathedrals record every sin and crows watch the blood return to stone.

Mirror Heart — Kate Seger
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Mirror Heart

"We belong to the things we cannot say."

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When the Iron Rusts

When the Iron Rusts

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Gilded Blood

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COMPLETED SERIES
A generational gothic fantasy.

The Veilkeepers

Where the boundary between life and death is as thin as a shadow. Step into a world where the dead are louder than the living, and follow the Leclair-Harrow-Ashworth bloodline through a century of ghosts, bargains, and survival.

Death Comes Knocking

Death Comes Knocking

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The Woman Who Refused Death

The Woman Who Refused Death

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The Oathbound Line

The Oathbound Line

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Death Comes Calling

Death Comes Calling

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Death Comes Quietly

Death Comes Quietly

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"The cathedral doesn't just hold our prayers; it holds our sins. In these shadows, magic isn't a gift—it's a debt that must be paid in blood and silver. If you seek the light, turn back. But if you desire to touch the forbidden, step closer."

SHADOWS HAVE MEMORIES | MAGIC HAS A PRICE

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