Chris Kim’s debut novel Shaman of Heaven and Hell weaves Korean myth into a modern day world where two young men with traumatic pasts find each other by chance and grow closer by choice. 

Death follows Adrian Shin-Ward, the last shaman of his Korean lineage. Born with a volatile gift, Adrian lives on society’s perimeter. He can’t have friends. He could never dare fall in love.

Then he meets Bram Lyght. Brilliant and charismatic, Bram awakens Adrian’s hidden desire. There’s something alluring about Bram. Something different. Something strange. Adrian wants to get closer, burns with the desire to have Bram, even as he’s reminded that death circles him.

Stalked by a past nightmare, Bram needs a savior. Tyler Guerra, the man who assaulted him years ago, has been released from prison. Obsessed with the elusive power Bram carries,  Tyler leaves a trail of destruction to reach him. Tyler wants Bram. And Adrian is the only one who can protect him.

As Tyler closes in on Bram, Adrian unearths secrets hidden within his mother’s bloodline. What he finds could be the very thing that saves Bram. It could also be what destroys his humanity and shoves him into the depths of Hell.