The Silent Council (The War Beyond the Veil Book 2)

Vanya Sedemona is having a very bad month.

So far in the past thirty days he’s been harassed by ghosts, beaten up, threatened with execution, shot at (twice) and beaten up (again). He’s been verbally abused by his own mother, disowned by his own father and deserted in his hour of need by his own brother. He’s been both the right hand man of one of the evillest individuals in history and a spy and agent for the unseen forces of justice and good; he’s been the most powerful Ganglord in all of New Hanaught and more powerless than he ever thought possible. The love of his life has left him (though not by choice) and his own followers have turned against him (very much by choice). And finally, to cap it all, a week ago he was murdered.

Being dead, it turns out, is only going to be the beginning of Vanya’s problems. And the journey he’s about to set out on, a journey that will take him across thousands of miles of land and ocean, is going to bring him a lot of unwanted attention. Because in this world between the worlds, this place between life and death, a great and dangerous game is being played: a game that will decide the shape of the future and the fate of billions. And one man’s search for answers could change the rules of the game beyond all recognition...

In a world similar yet different to our own, the War Beyond the Veil grows in intensity. A new force is about to asset itself. Ancient prophecies will be fulfilled, strong and powerful nations will be cast down, and a centuries old secret will be revealed; a secret so dark and terrible that hundreds have died to keep it safe; the secret of the Silent Council.