Lye Street

This novella (a mere 135 pages) is a prequel to the Deepgate Codex trilogy, a favorite of mine. Sal Greene wants to stop the mad angel Carnival from killing him due to a centuries-long vendetta. The Spine assassins want to kill Carnival too. And Carnival wants to just do her thing. This has all the ultra-strange otherness, I expect from this author. There's dangerous wizards (“thaumaturges”), dreamworlds, gods, church assassins, traps, and more. Read it in a rush of pages. Found a used copy that came from a library in Mishawaka, Indiana.