Strangers at the Maw

Book Three of The Strangers’ Way Trilogy

At the top of the world, the sea has a mouth — and what it takes, it does not drown. It keeps.

The road that began in the burning south ends here, on a frozen coast where the ice meets black water and the old work never stops. In the port of Greybay and the caves beneath it, something is grinding the living down into the deep and calling it labor. Arn, Sefna, and Tanu came north to close it. They did not understand what closing it would cost.

The bond the three of them built fire by fire will be tested against the Maw — and against the past one of them has carried all along, and the discovery that the work has more than one mouth, and that the southernmost was only the first.

Strangers at the Maw is the final volume of The Strangers’ Way, a complete weird-fantasy trilogy that carries one exile from the burning south of Eæth to its frozen north. For readers of Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, and C.J. Cherryh — austere, immersive, and strange in the oldest sense.

The road ends at the water. The war begins beneath it

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