Agyar (Tor Fantasy) - Softcover

"["Agyar], " a suave and mysterious drifter who shares an abandoned house with a compassionate African-American ghost, spends his nights seducing various inhabitants of an Ohio college town. Few can resist him, but he eventually finds himself obsessed with two women, one a beautiful young dancer, the other a harsh taskmistress of indeterminate age. One offers him salvation, the second seeks to destroy him...Packs more of an emotional wallop than any verbose gore fest served up by less imaginative talents." -"San Francisco Chronicle" "Steven Burst, in a genre that's mostly done by numbers these days, maintains a hipster charm and originality of mind." -"The Philadelphia Inquirer" "The author of the Vlad Taltos series and "The Phoenix Guard" offers a fresh perspective on a popular theme of dark fantasy in this penetrating look at an individual caught on the border between life and death." -"Library Journal" " "Agyar ," a suave and mysterious drifter who shares an abandoned house with a compassionate African-American ghost, spends his nights seducing various inhabitants of an Ohio college town. Few can resist him, but he eventually finds himself obsessed with two women, one a beautiful young dancer, the other a harsh taskmistress of indeterminate age. One offers him salvation, the second seeks to destroy him...Packs more of an emotional wallop than any verbose gore fest served up by less imaginative talents." -"San Francisco Chronicle" "Steven Burst, in a genre that's mostly done by numbers these days, maintains a hipster charm and originality of mind." -"The Philadelphia Inquirer" "The author of the Vlad Taltos series and "The Phoenix Guard" offers a fresh perspective on a popular theme of dark fantasy in this penetrating look at an individual caught on the border between life and death." -"Library Journal" "["Agyar]," a suave and mysterious drifter who shares an abandoned house with a compassionate African-American ghost, spends his nights seducing various inhabitants of an Ohio college town. Few can resist him, but he eventually finds himself obsessed with two women, one a beautiful young dancer, the other a harsh taskmistress of indeterminate age. One offers him salvation, the second seeks to destroy him...Packs more of an emotional wallop than any verbose gore fest served up by less imaginative talents." -"San Francisco Chronicle" "Steven Burst, in a genre that's mostly done by numbers these days, maintains a hipster charm and originality of mind." -"The Philadelphia Inquirer" "The author of the Vlad Taltos series and "The Phoenix Guard" offers a fresh perspective on a popular theme of dark fantasy in this penetrating look at an individual caught on the border between life and death." -"Library Journal" "["Agyar], a suave and mysterious drifter who shares an abandoned house with a compassionate African-American ghost, spends his nights seducing various inhabitants of an Ohio college town. Few can resist him, but he eventually finds himself obsessed with two women, one a beautiful young dancer, the other a harsh taskmistress of indeterminate age. One offers him salvation, the second seeks to destroy him...Packs more of an emotional wallop than any verbose gore fest served up by less imaginative talents." -"San Francisco Chronicle "Steven Burst, in a genre that's mostly done by numbers these days, maintains a hipster charm and originality of mind." -"The Philadelphia Inquirer "The author of the Vlad Taltos series and "The Phoenix Guard offers a fresh perspective on a popular theme of dark fantasy in this penetrating look at an individual caught on the border between life and death." -"Library Journal

What if you could live for centuries, and the only price was your soul...? Agyar is a man who has paid this price. Born over a century ago, and once a frivolous young man in search of pleasure, he found instead immortality in a woman's blood-red lips. Now he roams from woman to woman, from decade to decade, and from land to land. Death does not bind him. Only one thing does - and that is a bind he has vowed to break. It has brought him to modern day Ohio and an abandoned house in a quiet college town. Here he plays his familiar role: the handsome drifter, the mysterious stranger, the sharp-tongued and heartless Lothario. But in this town are two women, one young and one as ageless as he. And one of these two women will cost him much more than his blackened soul. Once again author Steven Brust proves himself to be one of the most dazzling new stars of the fantasy field with this dark, sharp urban fantasy of the immortal, amoral Agyar.