
Length4h
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The dead don't sit up. They don't fold their hands like they're waiting for a bus. And they certainly don't carry a mark under their jaw that only appears under ultraviolet light, a symbol no medical examiner in the city has ever seen.
Detective Mara Voss has built her entire career on one rule: follow the evidence, not the feeling. It's the only thing that got her through the year since her partner's death, a death she sealed in a box and swore she'd never open again. But when a routine suicide call turns up that same impossible mark, and then a second, and a third, Mara's careful, evidence-only world starts to come apart at the seams.
The trail leads her to a quiet secondhand bookshop, and to a man named Asher who knows far more than he's telling. It leads her to Tobias Kessler, a stranger with a stranger's smile who seems to know things about her case that no living person should. And it leads her, finally, back to the one file she swore she'd never reopen again: her partner's.
What Mara uncovers is a war that has nothing to do with the mortal world she's spent her life policing, and everything to do with it. A fallen angel who broke the rules of Heaven itself to hide a wrongly condemned soul. A demon collector who believes he's owed a debt three centuries old. And an ordinary woman living six blocks away who has no idea that her impossibly lucky life has just made her the most hunted person in the city.
As the bodies mount and the lines between hunter and hunted blur, Mara will have to decide how far she's willing to go, and who she's willing to trust, to close a case that started with her partner's murder and now threatens everyone she has left to lose. Because some debts were never meant to be paid. And some truths were never meant to stay buried.
THE MARKED is a slow-burn paranormal mystery for readers who love their angels morally gray, their demons unexpectedly sympathetic, and their detectives too stubborn to stop digging even when the truth might destroy them. Perfect for fans of atmospheric supernatural thrillers where the mystery is real, the stakes are eternal, and the romance simmers quietly beneath every page.
For fans of Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files (supernatural case-of-the-week structure), Cassandra Clare's shadow-world mythology, and the atmospheric slow-burn romance of Deborah Harkness's A Discovery of Witches, with the emotional grounding of a character-driven crime procedural.
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature, Fantasy, Horror
Length4 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Front Matter
22CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
2Foreword
23CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
3Acknowledgements
24CHAPTER NINETEEN
4CHAPTER ONE
25CHAPTER TWENTY
5CHAPTER TWO
26CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
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6CHAPTER THREE
27CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
7CHAPTER FOUR
28CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
8CHAPTER FIVE
29CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
9CHAPTER SIX
30PART THREE
10CHAPTER SEVEN
31Chapter
11CHAPTER EIGHT
32Chapter
12CHAPTER NINE
33CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
13PART TWO
34CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
14Chapter
35CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
15Chapter
36CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
16CHAPTER ELEVEN
37CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
17CHAPTER TWELVE
38CHAPTER THIRTY
18CHAPTER THIRTEEN
39CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
19CHAPTER FOURTEEN
40CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
20CHAPTER FIFTEEN
41CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
21CHAPTER SIXTEEN