The New World Bestiary

Synopsis

In 1492, Adrian Corvin's fleet returned from the Dusklands with more than gold, spices, and dreams of conquest. Hidden in a forgotten vault lies a stained logbook, sealed away because the men who read it never slept peacefully again. Its pages record creatures the sailors were never meant to survive: Nightbloods that drink from the neck in silence, harpies with beautiful women's faces and talons full of human remains, and the Mire's Maw, a thing beneath the swamp that wakes to the sound of blood. As the narrator turns each forbidden page, the old warnings stop feeling like history. Something came back with the ships. Something still remembers the way home. And the Bestiary of the New World has only just begun.