Welcome to Seven Sins. The streets are crooked. The gutters run with blood. The dead have a habit of staying useful. And everyone has a story. Some of them are even true. In Seven Sins, a man who survives too many attempts on his life becomes Lazarus, a legend far more dangerous than the frightened man beneath the coat. A widow running a boardinghouse quietly becomes one of the most powerful people in the city—not because she carries a gun, but because everyone tells her their secrets. A young boy sets out to become the King Below, only to discover that legends are easier to worship than they are to become. A man with a ledger learns that every debt has a price—and that some accounts are not meant to be balanced. A woman who speaks for the dead discovers that corpses remember things the living would rather forget. And beneath it all is the oldest story in Seven Sins: the story of the King Below. Saint. Murderer. Ghost. Devil. King. Nobody knows what he is. Nobody agrees that he even exists. But Seven Sins knows his name. Tales of Seven Sins is a collection of dark, violent, strange, and sometimes unexpectedly tender stories about the people who live in the shadows of a city that seems to have a life—and a memory—of its own. There are no heroes here. There are sinners. There are monsters. There are saints who aren’t particularly good at being saints. And there are stories that refuse to die. Seven Sins is waiting. Come inside. Just don’t assume you’ll find your way back out.
