Codex Born

Isaac Vainio belongs to a group of mages known as the Porters, an organization founded by Johannes Gutenberg to protect the innocent from wrongly used magic. As a libriomancer, Vainio has the power to pull creatures and objects from books. When he becomes involved in the search for the killer of a wendigo—a type of werewolf—in a town claimed as werewolf territory, Vainio realizes that the killer actually seeks to capture Lena Greenwood, Vainio's dryad lover and part of a love triangle that includes their psychiatrist Nidhi Shah, herself a Porter. As further complications arise, Vainio learns truths about his order and its still-living founder that make him question everything he knows about magic and about the Porters themselves. The sequel to Libriomancer delivers more pulp fantasy action that's infused with a genuine love for books and for creating unusual—and unusually likable—characters.