The Dim City
Book 10 of Ravenwood: A Seeker's Memoir
As Jack heals from the fire that shattered Ravenwood, a sharp-eyed new seeker steps toward the Circle and draws The Garret Gang’s survivors into the riddled streets of the Dim City looming beyond the Mist: a place where love, loyalty, and power will be tested on both sides of the veil.
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Jack is back, alive on Earth and home at last from the hospital, though still recovering from his wounds. As a bonus, in his trek across the worlds he’s found Mel again and brought her home to the Mist: sent back by the Guardians, as they’ve learned, to rescue someone now suffering beyond Their reach.
And though Ravenwood and the Crypt Crew are gone they have left the survivors one final legacy, a baffling poem Tina once wrote in a drug-induced trance:
“Where black thorn pierces wing and wood
And tongues of darkness draw the blood
Of Beauty bare in cauldron’s flare,
And songs are silenced: Who shall dare
To turn the Key, and seek the Tree,
And pass the Watchers by the stair?”
Puzzling out its riddles, The Garret Gang grows certain Mel’s mission lies in those ruins across the Lake where Norma felt some ancient power stirring. What wonders and horrors await discovery in The Dim City?
Setting
Genre
Published
Themes
- Healing, Vulnerability, and Recovery After Trauma
- Initiation, Trust, and the Path of the Seeker
- Walking Between Worlds and Accepting Power
- Love, Loyalty, and Boundaries Within Found Family
Characters
Jack Peredur · Injured chemistry graduate student and narrator recovering from the Ravenwood explosion; central witness and interpreter of events; learning to walk between worlds again while redefining love, leadership, and the limits of his power.
Suzanne “Sue” Marat · Jack’s partner and caretaker at The Garret; anchor of the coven’s earthly life; juggling medical pragmatism, emerging desires of her own, and the spiritual responsibility of deciding who may be trusted inside the Circle.
Melusine (Mel) · Disembodied witch and beloved friend who can share Sue’s body or appear in the Mist; spiritual co-teacher and trickster guide; shifting from memory of Ravenwood to active shaper of Jack and Cissy’s initiatory path across worlds.
Sylvia “Cissy” Adams · Brian’s younger sister, newly sober after leaving a destructive past; earnest, skeptical seeker on the edge of Wiccan initiation; moving from frightened outsider to courageous novice facing tests, visions, and oaths.
Brian Adams · Cissy’s brother and cautious newcomer to Jack’s world; thoughtful, newsman-minded observer torn between strict Christian upbringing and the messy realities of magic, bodies, and desire.
Norma Stevens (“Aiolynn”) · Jack’s lost lover from Ravenwood; physically absent but vivid in visions of another world; symbol of grief and hope whose possible new life in Fern Hall forces Jack to question time between worlds and what “moving on” means.
