Echoes, Book 2 of The Man with the Dragon-Head Cane
🗓 Review by Nov. 22, 2026 · 30 days left
She never stopped waiting. The canyon never stopped listening. Now something else is listening too.
In 1857, a federal army invaded Utah. History calls it a bloodless war. But a young militiaman named Dafydd Morgan rode through Echo Canyon to face them and never came home. His wife, Hannah, continues to set his plate every night. Every day she searches the canyon.
She never accepted that he was gone. That refusal did not fade with her. It soaked into the stone.
Utah SBI agent Mara Wolfe has a Marine's discipline and a Valkyrie bound to her ring. She also carries the grief for the ones she couldn't bring home, and the world continues to show her how old and hungry it really is. Beside her is Tobias Crane, the Warden of the thin places between worlds, a man who has outlived civilizations and walks with a cane whose carved dragon's eyes seem to watch back.
Against them stands Arawn, High Lord of the Grey Reaches. He wants to cross into our world for good, and no cost is too high for him to pay.
Arawn has torn his way through thin places before. In Echo Canyon, he doesn't have to.
Someone is already opening a door.
To stop him, Mara has to follow Hannah's trail through brittle journals and canyon wind to a truth history never recorded, and to face a love that looks too much like her own grief. Tobias knows exactly what it is to love past all reason, and he has never told Mara what it cost him.
She is about to find out.
Some love is a fire. Some love is a door. Echoes asks which one Hannah is pushing on, and what comes through when it finally opens.
Echoes is Book 2 of The Man with the Dragon-Head Cane, a slow-burn urban fantasy rooted in the real canyons and buried history of Utah. For readers of Kevin Hearne, Jim Butcher, and Patricia Briggs.
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