A Furnace Sealed

An Ancient Evil Threatens to Awaken in the Bronx

Bram Gold is a Courser—a hunter-for-hire paid to deal with supernatural creatures, mystical happenings, and things that go booga-booga in the night. A typical day is dealing with crazed unicorns, local charlatans trying to bind the loa, and werewolves running around the dog park…

But when binding spells begin to fail around the Bronx, and the borough’s immortals start turning up dead, Bram must prevent more magical murders, before an ancient god awakens to level the city.

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The first in a new series of urban fantasy thrillers that take place in the Boogie-Down Bronx from best-selling, award-winning author Keith R.A. DeCandido.

This is the first book in The Adventures of Bram Gold series. The second book, Feat of Clay, is also available for request this month.

Keith R.A. DeCandido was born in what is now the Wakefield campus of Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. He attended Cardinal Spellman High School and Fordham University, both also in the Bronx, and has lived in the Boogie Down for all but one decade of his life. In 2009 and 2010, he worked for the U.S. Census Bureau, involved in dozens of different operations throughout the Bronx. So writing an urban fantasy series taking place in the northernmost of the five boroughs is a particular thrill.
He introduced Bram Gold in the short story “Under the King’s Bridge” in the 2011 anthology Liar Liar, and the next book in Bram’s series, Feat of Clay, will also be released by eSpec Books. He’s told tales of other Coursers in the Systema Paradoxa novella All-the-Way House and in short stories in Bad Ass Moms and Devilish and Divine.
His other work includes a long-running series of fantasy police procedurals published by eSpec Books, the latest of which is Phoenix Precinct; a cycle of urban fantasy stories set in Key West, Florida, collected in Ragnarok and Roll and Ragnarok and a Hard Place, both published by Plus One Press; and the new Supernatural Crimes Unit urban fantasy series, forthcoming from Weird Tales Presents. He’s also got an extensive résumé of media tie-in fiction, having written novels, short fiction, and comic books in more than thirty licensed universes, from Alien to Zorro, the latest of which includes the Resident Evil comic book Infinite Darkness: The Beginning and short stories in Star Trek Explorer. In 2009, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, which means he never needs to achieve anything ever again.
When he’s not writing, Keith is an editor (for clients both personal and corporate), a martial artist (he achieved his fourth-degree black belt in karate in 2021, and he regularly teaches karate to kids), an avid New York Yankees fan, and probably some other stuff he can’t remember due to the lack of sleep. Find out less at his inadequate website at www.DeCandido.net.