Onticmetry
Hemlock never wanted to be a perceiver. To glimpse the layer beneath reality and be forever changed, bound to the laws of magic and paradigms. Tales of horrors beyond base perception; unknowable gods, spectral ghouls, and demons who wore the skin of men ensured he stayed in his mundane life. At a dead-end job in a nothing town, with a mother who abandoned him, and a father at the end of his rope. But when a summoned demon burns down his home, gouges out his left eye, and steals his father's soul for an apocalyptic ritual, he has no choice but to dive headfirst into the world he fears.
He joins the Twilight Emporium, a cabal of thieves, death merchants, and treasure hunters willing to go to hell and back for the right price. The emporium can find his father’s soul—but nothing comes free. And in the search to find his father's soul, he may lose his own.
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