The Fly King

Deft of wit and wicked as hell, Karling Abbeygate's The Fly King is a seductive and sinister debut. --Richard Christian Matheson. Rachel lives a mundane life in Chicago. She doesn't know she has a murderous brother living in the slums of East London who is coming for her. She doesn't know about the ancient curse of the Fly King or the unthinkable events about to take place. What she does know is that she's being inexplicably drawn clear across country to a desolate little town in the wooded mountains of Washington and that her boyfriend Gavin is not happy about it. Strange things start to happen when Rachel meets Magdalena, the town psychic. Magdalena has a horrifying realization about Rachel and her own destiny that is fatefully entwined. While Magdalena tries desperately to decipher the visions, Rachel thinks she's finally been blessed with the one thing that can make her relationship with Gavin complete. But her happiness quickly unravels as ancestral truths are revealed and the Fly King plays his hand...