The Boston Cold Case
About
New Orleans burned him. Now, Boston wants to freeze him to death.
Sylar Crowe is back in Boston. After the horrors of the south, he wants nothing more than a warm stove, a cheap bottle of whiskey, and a winter without magic. He’s paid his dues. He’s cleared his ledger.
But the past he buried refuses to stay dead.
A detective arrives at his door with a crime scene photograph that stops Sylar’s heart. It’s not just a murder—it’s a message. The victim was killed using a theatrical sigil that Sylar invented years ago for a con job. Someone has found his old journal of fake magic and is trying to use it for real power.
A supernatural blizzard has descended on Boston, burying streets in snow that defies gravity and dropping temperatures to impossible lows. This isn't nature—it’s a breach. A tear in reality has opened in the heart of the Boston Common, and something from the void is leaking through.
When Sylar tracks down the amateur warlock, he finds a man whose sorrow has torn a hole in reality.
To close the breach, Sylar must take on an apprentice and try to undo the damage. But the laws of magic are absolute: energy cannot be created or destroyed, only traded. To close a hole in the world, something of equal value must fill it.
Sylar has spent his life running from the cost of his power. Now, standing on the edge of the abyss, he has to decide how much of his soul he is willing to sell to save the innocent.
The cold is rising. The void is hungry. And this time, a sleight of hand won’t save him.
"The shattering conclusion to the Crowe Files prequel trilogy. A heart-wrenching supernatural thriller that proves the only thing colder than a Boston winter is a wizard’s choice."