When Emily Doyle travels by airship to New Doral, the last thing she expects is to meet a polite young man who helps a gang of slavers drug and kidnap her. Yet those operating in the shadows of the Chimney have no idea who they’re dealing with.
Managing a daring escape, the petite and gutsy white-haired vir is determined to find out who’s behind her abduction and to retrieve something taken from her. Emily’s search leads her to unexpected places, jobs, and friends. But nothing could have prepared her for life in the Chimney, New Doral’s multilevel set of enclosed cities where citizens can either thrive or merely survive depending on their race, sex, and class.
Emily won’t let those in power, as well as those in the Chimney’s underbelly, stop her from unearthing the truth. All she needs is a Merc license, and she can locate her abductors, find what she’s lost, and stop her captors from harming anyone else. Too bad it’s not that simple.
Intent on remaining true to her values and following her “path,” Emily must find justice for the oppressed while exposing the cracks in the Chimney’s system, all the while still following the belief system in which she was raised. Views: 218
"A moving portrait of love and friendship set against a backdrop of social change." —The New York Times "Here is the power of the novel in its simplest, richest for: bearing intimate witness to human beings grappling with their faith and falling in love. That Wall executes it so beautifully? Well, this is exactly why we read literary fiction." —Entertainment Weekly (A-) "When I began reading The Dearly Beloved I braced for piety, worried it might be a book only a believer could appreciate. Instead, I found myself carried along by Cara Wall's luminous prose, and then by these characters and their stories. I saw myself in their doubts, in their hopes. There is no moralizing here, only empathy. When I arrived at the end I felt absolutely lifted by the spirit of the story." —Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, YesCharles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet... Views: 218
This is the second collection of stories from Crippen & Landru to feature the works of Richard Webb and Hugh Wheeler, who were better known under their three pseudonyms, Q. Patrick, Patrick Quentin, and Jonathan Stagge. These stories, most of which were written between 1946 and 1955 primarily for This Week and Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine, feature Lt. Timothy Trant, the New York homicide detective. Trant appeared in three novels early in the careers of the two men as works by Q Patrick, and would later return at the end of the Peter Duluth series under the Patrick Quentin name in Black Widow, where Duluth is the main suspect. As Webb s health declined, most of these short works (and the later novels,) would be written by Wheeler alone. This is the first time that many of these stories have seen print, since their original publication over 50 years ago.
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Laura Bickle, the critically acclaimed author of Nine of Stars and Witch Creek, returns with a fiery new chapter in her celebrated Wildlands series.In the Yellowstone backcountry, a merciless source of evil carries a torch for the past...Petra Dee and her immortal husband, Gabe, have been trying to gain a toehold in what passes for ordinary life in Temperance, Wyoming—a wickedly enchanted land founded generations ago by the alchemist, Lascaris. Petra may be adept when it comes to the uncanny, but as a reasoned geologist, Petra still can't fathom the wildfires suddenly engulfing Yellowstone National Park, or why Gabe claims to have seen the sky explode in flames. The answers could lie in the past. It was a dreadful night in 1862 when Lascaris went harvesting for souls, only to be set upon by townsfolk determined to eliminate the root of all evil in a trial by fire. Petra can't help fearing that Lascaris has crawled out of the... Views: 218
