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The Rite Of The Withering Bloom
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $36.99
ISBN13: 9781917972574
Publisher: House of the Tiger
Published: May 31 2026
Pages: 548
Weight: 1.98
Height: 1.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Shadow Over Myeong-dong was a love story that crossed thirteen centuries. This is its dark mirror.
In AD 669, at the height of a devastating famine in the Kingdom of Silla, five people perform a forbidden ritual to appease Gogalsin, the fallen God of Withering. Before nightfall, four are dead. The fifth can only watch. The curse they unleash will follow all five souls across every life they are given, binding them in a cycle of hatred and violence that no death can break.
In present-day London, four friends - a forensic profiler, a neuroscientist, an art dealer, and a martial arts instructor - begin to lose themselves to a rage that is not their own. Nightmares bleed into waking life. Ancient names surface in moments of violence. Something has waited thirteen centuries for them to find each other again.
The only person who knows what is coming has spent those same thirteen centuries forbidden to intervene. Her task has always been to watch. But this time may be different.
Some curses don't destroy you. They just make you destroy each other.
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