The Blood Supply
(2025)(The fourth book in the Many Lives of Lucas Kane series)
A novel by Craig Zerf
In a city where doors can turn into altars and paperwork kills as cleanly as knives, the blood supply is the new battleground.
When Jawbone’s cold chain starts ‘accidentally’ failing, exorcist-turned-reluctant-fix-it-man Lucas Kane and his crew do what they do best: make rooms behave. Nurses become generals, kids tape the law at shin height (‘No passes in med’), wolves and velvet share a coffee without homicide, and every hinge learns its manners. Easy, right?
Not when a contract-slick emissary offers to erase the evidence—for a private consent. Not when a sigil-caged freezer bank literally feeds on titles. Not when every ‘public safety’ announcement is a six-beat spell trying to turn people into policy. And not when Below—the old trouble—keeps humming under the pavement, patient as hunger.
To keep the minutes cold and the city human, Lucas has to write refusals into wood and steel, outstubborn a bureaucracy with fangs, and choose between the neat solution and the honest one. Because in Jawbone, people—not paper—move the blood.
Perfect for fans of sharp-tongued urban fantasy, found-family grit, and demonology that reads like municipal code. Dark humor, high stakes, no capes.
Start here or continue the ride—either way, bring salt.
Genre: Science Fiction
When Jawbone’s cold chain starts ‘accidentally’ failing, exorcist-turned-reluctant-fix-it-man Lucas Kane and his crew do what they do best: make rooms behave. Nurses become generals, kids tape the law at shin height (‘No passes in med’), wolves and velvet share a coffee without homicide, and every hinge learns its manners. Easy, right?
Not when a contract-slick emissary offers to erase the evidence—for a private consent. Not when a sigil-caged freezer bank literally feeds on titles. Not when every ‘public safety’ announcement is a six-beat spell trying to turn people into policy. And not when Below—the old trouble—keeps humming under the pavement, patient as hunger.
To keep the minutes cold and the city human, Lucas has to write refusals into wood and steel, outstubborn a bureaucracy with fangs, and choose between the neat solution and the honest one. Because in Jawbone, people—not paper—move the blood.
Perfect for fans of sharp-tongued urban fantasy, found-family grit, and demonology that reads like municipal code. Dark humor, high stakes, no capes.
Start here or continue the ride—either way, bring salt.
Genre: Science Fiction
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