The Coil
THE COIL
A dark fantasy series featuring the Aztec gods, the underworld of Mictlán, and the future of humanity.
Nine volumes. Three available now. Start with the first and read in order.
BOOK ONE
13 Secret Cities
Clara Montes lives in an authoritarian Chicago of militarized police and constant surveillance. When a protest erupts into violence, she is marked by forces older than any civilization and pulled down into Mictlán, the Aztec land of the dead, to face the two gods who rule it. What she learns there about the thirteen hidden portals between worlds will change everything.
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BOOK TWO
9 Lords of Night
A ritual killer called the Night Drinker hunts Manhattan beneath a burying snowstorm, carving symbols into his victims and taking their hearts. NYPD detective Nestor Buñuel works the case as his last before retirement. The deeper he is pulled into the killer’s cosmology, the harder it becomes to deny that the Aztec lords of the underworld are real—and watching.
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BOOK THREE
Hall of Mirrors
Five years ago, private investigator Nestor Buñuel came close enough to Mictlán to know the Aztec lords were watching. When the ritual killer he helped convict summons him for one last interview, a prison blackout drops them both into the underworld in flesh and blood. Through its nine levels they are drawn toward the Hall of Mirrors, while the surveilled America they left behind begins to burn.
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The Coil Complete Collection
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