Rosalyn Lane: Arcanum
Book One: The Fool
Second-edition paperback · · 603 pages
A city on the brink of catastrophe, two lives and a prophecy demanding to be fulfilled.
Enter the novel
A rain-soaked city stands at the edge of a catastrophe it has been taught to understand through prophecy.
Rosalyn Lane: Arcanum moves through occult symbolism, the Tarot, fractured identity and the seductions of destiny. It follows two men whose very different lives begin to converge around the possibility of an apocalyptic new dawn.
Book One: The Fool
John Baptist is haunted by the warnings of the Grey Father and a prophecy demanding the end of four fallen kings. Somewhere within its language is the mystery of a hidden child, and the terrible belief that sacrifice might break the city’s long cycle of suffering.
Sebastian Hawthorn, an elderly maestro approaching the final performance of his life, has spent decades pursuing a musical work that he now believes to be far more than a symphony. At ninety-two, he prepares to bring it into the world as a legacy, a reckoning and perhaps a ritual.
Destiny and desire
Their journeys raise questions about the power of stories to shape action. A prophecy may be a warning, an instruction or a justification; the distinction is often most difficult to see for the person who believes himself chosen to fulfil it.
The line between what must happen and what someone wishes to happen is not always easy to find.
The Arcanum world
Dark urban fantasy, philosophical horror and the imagery of the Tarot meet in Rosalyn Lane: Arcanum — The Fool. Its two central lives bring the larger city’s fears and ambitions into intimate focus.