Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to share upcoming book releases that we’re excited about! This meme is based on Waiting on Wednesday, which was created and hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.
The title and the dark figure on the cover of Absolon Creed really grabbed my attention, but I didn’t pay much attention to what the book was about. I went back and was looking for books to add to my Goodreads TBR and actually read the synopsis… it’s a grimdark mystery. That’s literally all I need to know because I will read just about any fantasy/mystery that comes across my path given sufficient time. Anyway, Absolon Creed will be released September 8, 2026.
A legendary soldier is the last line of defense between his city and monstrous chaos in this grimdark adventure from an unmissable voice in epic fantasy.
Bastion, the once-shining capital of Morrengard, teeters on the brink. Its grand spires are crumbling and its nobility fight over scraps, all while eldritch creatures stalk the streets. The only thing standing in the way of its utter destruction is the Order of a knightly order more brutal than the threats the city faces. And its most brutal champion… Absolon Creed.
When two nobles are found murdered in a manner most grotesque, suspicions arise about a traitor within the Order itself. Creed is tasked with investigating, and for his sins he is saddled with a Guenivar Blackmere, a daughter of nobility and the Order’s newest, and most untested, initiate.
Together, they are plunged into Bastion’s fetid underbelly, where warlocks rub elbows with corrupt nobles and necromancers cavort with the dead. Guenivar must learn fast or perish under Creed’s cold tutelage. Her mentor is quick to anger, and about as friendly as a cornered wolf, but that is the only way to survive these unforgiving streets.
But as the investigation deepens, Guenivar discovers a secret about him that could shatter everything she believed about the order and its heroes. While Creed himself must defeat the ghosts he’s spent years trying to bury… before they bury Bastion itself.
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