The Certainty of Dust

The Advanced Information is out for Certainty:

It will be published on 22/10/26 and has a fab cover:

On a stormy night, while crossing the Severn Bridge, Jackie loses everything…

The accident leaves her twin sister dead and Jackie struggling to piece together a life from the wreckage. Music – the one thing that once gave her purpose – has become an unbearable reminder, and the future stretches out as a dull routine of work, migraines and regret.

But grief is never simple, and soon Jackie begins to see impossible things: a funeral coach appearing where the accident happened, ghostly musicians performing in the night and a pale violinist who claims to carry messages from Death.

The offer he brings is simple. If Jackie can make the cold and heartless undertaker, Massicott, cry using nothing but her music, her sister’s soul will be released.

Driven by a guilt she cannot escape, Jackie agrees to the wager.

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Pete W Sutton is a writer and editor. His two short story collections – A Tiding of Magpies and The Museum for Forgetting – were shortlisted for Best Collection in the British Fantasy Awards in 2017 & 2022 respectively. His novel – Seven Deadly Swords – was published by Grimbold Books. He has edited several short story anthologies and is the editor for the British Fantasy Society Horizons fiction magazine.

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