My Brother's Keeper

A nominee for the “Locus” award.
THE AUTHENTIC STORY OF THE BRONTË SISTERS, WHICH ONLY TIM POWERS CAN TELL.

This is a narrative of ghosts, of shape-shifters, and of secrets hidden in the night. It’s a story about a cursed land, about the endless moorlands of the north of England, beautifully depicted in “Wuthering Heights.” It’s also the story of a family that fate bound to this mysterious and dangerous world.

When the young Emily Brontë helps a wounded man found at an ancient pagan altar on remote Yorkshire moors, their fates intertwine. He is Alcuin Kerzson, a hardened sect member who seeks to destroy the newly rising threat of lycanthropy in Europe and Northern England.

The one who, forty years ago, unwittingly called the demonic werewolf god into Yorkshire—into Emily’s beloved but undisciplined brother—was her own father, the vicar from the village of Howarth. Now Kerzson sees the Brontë family as a terrible threat.

Despite strong disagreements, Emily and Alcuin unite to fight werewolves, summon pagan gods, and save each other from demonic temptations of the moors. They become allies in the final battle that will unfold from the ghost-haunted village of Howarth to a sinister altar out on the moorlands. People stand against an ancient power that can take not only their lives, but also their souls.