Writing
Coming Soon: Blightshade, the debut dark magical fantasy from Alison Wright
Lorne’s magic is rotting him from the inside out.
As a rare curse crafter, Lorne’s magic already brands him as the subject of suspicion among his fellow witches and the corruption only makes it worse. Vain and panicked, Lorne locks himself within an icy veneer of perfection in hopes that no one will see the blight festering within. But Lorne hasn't gone unnoticed.
After a brutally public failure of his magic, Lorne is cornered by a stranger with a curse of his own and an unshakable belief that Lorne is responsible. The stranger forces Lorne into a perilous bargain: break the curse in exchange for a cure to the blight. Lorne is hurled headlong into an undertaking that will expose the deepest failings of his diseased magic, his fate hopelessly entangled in a knot of unstable relationships.
His cure is held in the grip of a criminal willing to hunt Lorne like a dog for the chance to escape his ghosts.
His ability to control the blight rests on a sharp-tongued witch who sees right through Lorne’s polished front.
His safety lies with his own estranged brother who Lorne abandoned after the incident that ripped their family apart.
To have any hope of restoring his magic, Lorne must face the darkest recesses of his corruption and the very monster that blighted him in this dark magical realism meets modern thriller.
