A silent killer stalks the slum towers of Death City. In the shadow of a drowned death god, a young soldier burns the dead.To solve a violent crime, Soldier Honnan Skyin follows a bloody trail through the isolated Frontier and over the behemoth bones of a dead giant.Some secrets should stay buried.Welcome to Death City.A Pale Box on the Distant Shore is a prequel stand-alone novella that takes place one year before the events of Dream of Death City - book one in the Red Kingdom series of dark mysteries in fantasy worlds that delve into a land filled with vicious crimes, strange lore and Purge House zealots.