The Knight, Quinn, is down on his luck, and he travels to the very edge of the civilized world—whatever that means, any more—to restock his small but essential inventory.
After fighting a series of gladiatorial bouts against the dead, he finds himself in the employ of a woman on a quest to find the secret to repairing her semi-functional robot. But the technological secret it guards may be one truth too many…
The second novella in the Dreaming Cities series, Guy Haley’s The Ghoul King is available July 12th from Tor.com Publishing. Read an excerpt below, or check out a preview of the first book in the series, The Emperor’s Railroad.