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The Joining Trial
Paperback
Series: Blood Rite, Book 1
Publisher Price: $15.99
Publisher: L. J. Glover
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Evelyn sold her soul in a dive bar. She thought it was a pickup line. doesn't remember much before that - not the grief that drove her here, not the people she loved, not the woman she used to be - when she wakes up next to Laney.
Laney is older than Babylon. She may have angered some ancient gods recently and now has just weeks to teach Evelyn how to inherit her magic and immortality, or watch it kill them both. Evelyn's former dealer is looking for her. A demon of debauchery is closing in. The gods are listening. And the foremothers are restless.
The Joining Trial is the first book in the Blood Rite series, a blend of thriller, horror and fantasy that tells a take of forgotten Mesopotamian gods, found family, redemption and a magic that is older than time. For readers of Ninth House, Blackbirds, and the Crescent City novels (but make it darker).
Adult content. Reader discretion advised.
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