Dakota Banks

Dakota Banks writes supernatural suspense and urban fantasy, with Dark Time introducing the Mortal Path series. The novel follows Maliha Crayne, once Susannah Layhem, whose desperate bargain with the demon Rabishu transformed her into an ageless agent carrying out his commands. Centuries later, she rejects that service and begins a dangerous effort to regain her humanity by protecting lives and opposing the power that bound her. Banks’s official site describes the series as a blend of mythology, action, and redemption, while Apple Books identifies Dark Time as the first Mortal Path novel and outlines its movement between a seventeenth-century accusation and the modern world. Maliha’s long memory gives the story a historical reach, but its central conflict remains personal: whether someone shaped by coercion can choose a different moral path. Dark Time therefore establishes both Maliha’s supernatural abilities and the cost of resisting Rabishu. Later Mortal Path books extend that struggle, making Banks’s opening volume the foundation for an ongoing dark-fantasy arc.