Korun: The Cup-Bearer's Debt
(2026)(The third book in the Korun: Blood and Tavern Smoke series)
A novel by Charles Eugene Anderson
One drink. One debt. One door beneath the floor.
Korun drank from the wrong cup.
Now the floor of the Hanged Mule remembers him.
Something climbs the cellar stairs wearing a dead man’s shape. The patrons bar the door, pile the tables high, and pray to gods too small to help—because they have done this before, and they know the rule no one will say aloud:
The debt is not paid until something goes below.
The cursed knife in Korun’s fist wants blood it has already tasted. The serving girl who warned him is older than the tavern and smaller than her own name. And in the darkness beneath the well, a priest who shed his skin a thousand years ago waits with an open cup.
Steel is honest.
It is also not enough.
The door opens from both sides.
Genre: Fantasy
Korun drank from the wrong cup.
Now the floor of the Hanged Mule remembers him.
Something climbs the cellar stairs wearing a dead man’s shape. The patrons bar the door, pile the tables high, and pray to gods too small to help—because they have done this before, and they know the rule no one will say aloud:
The debt is not paid until something goes below.
The cursed knife in Korun’s fist wants blood it has already tasted. The serving girl who warned him is older than the tavern and smaller than her own name. And in the darkness beneath the well, a priest who shed his skin a thousand years ago waits with an open cup.
Steel is honest.
It is also not enough.
The door opens from both sides.
Genre: Fantasy
Used availability for Charles Eugene Anderson's Korun: The Cup-Bearer's Debt