Cain Duncan

In the shadows of Savannah, some evils are older than sin itself

Silas Salt inherited his father's dark magic—and the responsibility to use it better than Richard ever did. Now he stands between the innocent and the supernatural predators hunting them. But every spell has a price. Every victory leaves scars. And the line between protector and monster grows thinner with each case. Southern Gothic supernatural thriller meets occult detective noir. Where the dead don't rest, the darkness hungers, and redemption is measured in shades of gray.

Books by Cain Duncan

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Silas Salt

Salt and Shadows: Silas Salt Series Book One

In the shadows of Savannah, Silas Salt inherited his father's dark magic—and the responsibility to use it better than Richard ever did. Now he stands between the innocent and the supernatural predators hunting them. But every spell has a price. Every victory leaves scars. And the line between protector and monster grows thinner with each case.

The Hungry Dark: Silas Salt Series Book Two

Children are disappearing into the shadows. Their parents are going insane. Silas Salt's first case as Savannah's occult protector leads him to a corrupted angel of death—a psychopomp broken by millennia of grief, now 'saving' children by stealing them into a gray realm before suffering can touch them. To stop the Shepherd, Silas makes a deal with his father's ghost. Richard will teach him the darkest magic the Salt family knows. The price: one conversation. But every spell Richard teaches makes the darkness more seductive. And some children can't be saved. Not all victories are clean. Not all heroes stay pure.

Carthage: A Silas Salt Novel Book Three

Some towns don't want to be found. Carthage shouldn't exist. It's not on any map, doesn't show up on satellite images, and the few people who stumble upon it rarely leave. When Silas Salt receives a desperate message from a woman trapped in the impossible town, he drives into the Appalachian fog and finds himself in a place where time moves wrong, the dead walk openly, and something ancient sleeps beneath the church on the hill. Carthage was built to be a cage—a prison for an entity so dangerous that an entire town was constructed around keeping it contained. But the wards are failing. The townspeople are changing. And Silas realizes he wasn't invited to help. He was invited to be the final sacrifice. To escape Carthage, Silas must do what no Salt has ever done: make a deal with the thing in the dark. The only question is what it will cost him to keep his soul.