The Ballad of Delilah

A haunting gothic tale about the price of love, the weight of grief, and the secrets that linger in the shadows between two worlds.Born into a quiet cottage on the edges of Dunsford, Delilah Cooke is a child of the veil. Her birth was a trade. A mother's life for a daughter's breath, and her arrival was marked by the haunting presence of the Wanderer, a guide for lost souls who has watched the threads of fate for centuries.Delilah is not like the other village children. With her startling grey eyes, strange vertical pupils, and a silver-white streak in her raven hair, she is a living bridge between the world of the light and the realms of the dark. While her father, William, buries his grief in forbidden scholarship and ancient texts, Delilah struggles to understand her purpose in life, while a mysterious tall shadowed man haunts her dreams.But a dark storm is coming. Something hungry and corrupted walks the paths of the dead, devouring lost souls before they can find their rest. Delilah is both the symptom of this cosmic imbalance and its only remedy. As she comes of age, she must navigate the cruelty of the living and the demands of the dead to uncover the truth of her mother's sacrifice and the great, dark purpose for which she was created.The Ballad of Delilah is a lyrical and evocative journey through a landscape of moss-draped oaks and mist-covered meadows. It is a story of what happens when love refuses to obey the laws of death, and what it truly costs to protect the lost.

Pages: 388, Paperback, Bully Publishing, LLC