The Doubles

A fast-paced, genre-bending debut from the winner of the 2023 black&write! Fellowship.

A fast-paced, genre-bending debut from the winner of the 2023 black&write! Fellowship.

‘I remembered a dream I had been having: a mountain, covered in trees, swelling up out of a plain like a tidal wave. But peering out from the underbrush was a row of eyeless faces looking past me out into the endless expanse I knew was at my back.’

On the Liverpool Plains, near the town of Werris Creek, the Veil that separates the mortal realm from the Outside is wearing thin. Children have been disappearing and turning up dead. Someone – or something – is responsible; taking them from their beds in the middle of the night and sending a message no one can understand.

That’s all Kring knows when she gets the case. That’s all she needs to know.

Kring is no stranger to magic and monsters – her job as an Envoy for the Higher