A dark and hard-edged horror-romance exploring themes of spirituality, romantic relationships and mental illness, "A Dog Among Thorns" chronicles a paranormal love triangle in a post-apocalyptic world. Miriam, a demon dispatched to the city of Kaiser, is charged with tempting young men in turbulent relationships to commit suicide. Her next victim, the sinful Jacob Gottschalk, seems an easy mark until she falls in love with him and raises the ire of Elizabeth Nicks, his wife and Kaiser's Constable. Their intertwining destinies transform into a dangerous tempest of gory violence, romantic intrigue, shifting political alliances and incursions of spiritual beings into the material world.