Redemption Song

Las Vegas sorcerer and career criminal Daniel Faust has always kept one rule: no innocent blood. When an infernal Prince decides to make that rule the price of everything Daniel loves, walking away stops being an option. Redemption Song puts Faust in the kind of corner where every exit looks worse than the last—forced to choose between his ethics and the woman he's fallen for, while a vengeful threat from Caitlin's distant past arrives to complicate matters further. The stakes feel genuinely personal rather than apocalyptic, which makes them hit harder.

Schaefer writes crime fiction and dark fantasy like they were always meant to share the same sentence, and this second Daniel Faust novel hits a stride the first book was building toward. The dual-perspective structure—splitting time between Daniel's morally knotted scheming and Caitlin's own unraveling history—gives the story a texture that single-narrator urban fantasy rarely achieves. The prose stays sharp and economical without sacrificing atmosphere, and Schaefer trusts his readers enough to let the darkness sit without over-explaining it. This is the book where the series finds its confidence.