Pages: 335 pages
ISBN: 0756415020
Publisher: DAW Books Inc.
Publication Date: January 15, 2019
Detective Dana Rohan has an excellent arrest and conviction rate. But even her partner doesn’t know the real reason why.
All her life Dana has borne a Mark of unknown origin that she’s kept secret. A Mark that allows her to walk into alternate pasts and futures. A Mark that allows her to go back and see any crime as it’s being committed. But the life she’s carefully built around this secret ability begins to crumble when she’s assaulted by a ragged old man. He babbles an incoherent warning that “the Shadows are coming,” right before he is killed by an armored monstrosity out of another century. The armored attacker vanishes, leaving the old man to die in Dana’s arms, and she realizes that he bears the same Mark she does.
Soon Dana finds herself hunted by Shadows coming from out of Chaos. She must flee through a host of alternate worlds as she finds out the true meaning of the Mark on her skin, and why someone wants to kill her for it.
Swann’s frenetic pacing is perfectly in sync with the bizarre, dark, and occasionally wild series of worlds that Dana and her companions are thrust into.
This was the best urban high fantasy novel I’ve ever read…Marked does an impressive job at blending magic in an everyday setting, and taking the reader to new and strange worlds…