The Depth Of Still Water
(2026)(The second book in the Hollow City Chronicles series)
A novel by Craig R Mitton
Beneath Toronto, something ancient is waking up.
It was here before the city. It was here before Lake Ontario even took its shape; before the last Ice Age retreated. Long before any arrangement was struck with the darkness that lives in the deepest layer of the dead - the Unlit. It was displaced two centuries ago by people who made that arrangement, the Compact. It has been pressing at the boundary ever since.
Now that boundary has cracked.
Forensic necromancer Serenya Halász made that crack. She made it deliberately, with cause, and she has been living with the consequences ever since — including the damage Vane left inside her binding with Cian—something cold and patient, waiting for exactly the right moment to strike.
As the ancient thing beneath the lake finds its way back through the channels of Toronto's supernatural underworld, Serenya must build an unlikely alliance across the city's hidden community: herself, her bonded ghost lover, a powerful with a cat familiar passed down from her mother who once saved us all, and a Toronto homicide detective. And her millennia-old vampire friend, who has been keeping secrets since 1887.
Serenya must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect the dead she has sworn to serve.
The Depth of Still Water is the second installment in the Hollow City Chronicles, a darkly atmospheric paranormal romance series set in the supernatural world beneath Toronto.
It was here before the city. It was here before Lake Ontario even took its shape; before the last Ice Age retreated. Long before any arrangement was struck with the darkness that lives in the deepest layer of the dead - the Unlit. It was displaced two centuries ago by people who made that arrangement, the Compact. It has been pressing at the boundary ever since.
Now that boundary has cracked.
Forensic necromancer Serenya Halász made that crack. She made it deliberately, with cause, and she has been living with the consequences ever since — including the damage Vane left inside her binding with Cian—something cold and patient, waiting for exactly the right moment to strike.
As the ancient thing beneath the lake finds its way back through the channels of Toronto's supernatural underworld, Serenya must build an unlikely alliance across the city's hidden community: herself, her bonded ghost lover, a powerful with a cat familiar passed down from her mother who once saved us all, and a Toronto homicide detective. And her millennia-old vampire friend, who has been keeping secrets since 1887.
Serenya must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect the dead she has sworn to serve.
The Depth of Still Water is the second installment in the Hollow City Chronicles, a darkly atmospheric paranormal romance series set in the supernatural world beneath Toronto.
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