Afrocentric and loosely inspired by Finnish underworld mythology, Born of Malice is a queer dark fantasy about learning to embrace the monster within and finding forgiveness even in the darkest of withered hearts. This book is for readers who like their grimdark queer and quirky with a dollop of black humor.
For the daughter of Death and the personification of Nightmare, existence has always been complicated. Wanting nothing to do with her cruel and fractious family, Leksi has done her best to carve out a happy if careful life among humans in a mortal city divided by tech and magic. She and her girlfriend are about to have everything they've always wanted, but Leksi’s dream of rehabilitating the magically disenfranchised is violently upended when her brother—Chaos incarnate—comes crashing back into her life, blood-soaked and leaking primordial magic, yet still seeking vengeance on the family that rejected him.
Leksi is reluctantly dragged back into the power struggles of her warring siblings, forced to help her brother recover his stolen magic before a treacherous mage unleashes havoc in a city already on the brink. Leksi will have to face ugly truths, embrace the darkest parts of herself she's always denied, and use the magic she’s always feared to save a world she’s not sure is worth it.
