A Pre-Release Look at The Mark of Shadows
A Pre-Release Look at The Mark of Shadows
What if the coldest part of winter wasn’t the weather, but your own past clawing back from the shadows?
This Spring-Summer 2025, prepare to be consumed by The Mark of Shadows, the upcoming noir-detective novel by H A Bustos that delivers a haunting descent into myth, memory, and the icy underworld of a forgotten Chicago.
In a version of Chicago stripped of holiday festive charm and buried in metaphorical frost, detective Nico Navarro, a recovering addict with a past soaked in regret, is drawn into the city’s darkest underbelly during the winter solstice in search of a stolen Aztec artifact. What he uncovers is no mere crime but a chilling descent into ancient cults, human sacrifices, and his own unraveling sanity.
The Mark of Shadows plunges you into a subterranean world where time stalls, rituals echo, and the only thing colder than the winter city streets is the void Nico carries inside.
If you’re drawn to psychological thrillers, mythic horror, and character-driven noir, this is THE novel you can’t afford to miss.
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The Mark of Shadows by H A Bustos - this one will stay with you long after the last page.
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