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Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris
Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris is an exploration of feminine power told through the lens of Dracula and Sherlock Holmes. Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, the story follows Samantha Harker and Dr. Helena Moriarty as they attempt to stop a rampage of gruesome and possibly supernatural murders. A slow burn romance unfurls between Sam and Hel as the evidence and bodies mounts, yet the question remains: is this real, or is Hel using Sam as a disposable pawn in her deadly game?
Familiar yet fresh, STRANGE BEASTS will lure you into its darkness with lush writing and hold you with its sharpened claws.
Meet Susan J. Morris
Susan J. Morris is a fantasy author and editor, best known for a writing advice column featured on Amazon’s Omnivoracious blog and her work editing Forgotten Realms novels. Susan delights in running workshops for Clarion West and in moderating panels for writing symposiums. She lives in Sammamish, Washington with her partner, two cats, and entirely too many plants.
Local Heavens by K.M. Fajardo
New York City, 2075. Filipino-American Nick Carraway has just moved to the heart of the fractured New Americas, where he’s struck by the city’s contradictions—shining corporate towers casting bleak shadows over the slums of a crumbling middle class.
When Nick meets alluring new-money Jay Gatsby, he falls for Gatsby’s frank charm and confident aura. But in a city where the wealthy flaunt tech-enhanced bodies to cheat death, surfaces aren’t all they seem—and as a corporate-sanctioned cyberspace hacker, Nick knows that no secret can stay buried forever. He’s the reason they don’t. And his latest assignment? Investigate Gatsby himself.
As Nick becomes entangled in the dark affairs of the elite—and the devastating fallout of their actions on the city’s most vulnerable—he must reckon with the limits of compassion and accountability across class and status. What takes precedence: Love, or truth? Heart, or soul?
A brilliant reimagining of Fitzgerald’s classic tale of glamour, desire, and desperation, Local Heavens examines the guardrails of morality … and the price of desire.
Meet K.M. Fajardo
K. M. Fajardo is a second-generation Filipino-Canadian speculative fiction writer from Ontario, Canada. She graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Global Business and Digital Arts before working in the tech industry. Her short fiction has previously been published in Canadian publications, Augur and Ricepaper Magazine. After a childhood spent roaming bookstores, she now lives and writes full-time in Toronto with her rescue cat, Clementine. She is currently working on her second book, a fantasy work inspired by Filipino culture and myth.
Sloane Price knows better than anyone there are worse things than the end of the world, so when the zombie apocalypse happens, the opportunity to escape her violent home life offers no great relief. She’s already lost the one thing that matters most — her sister — and with nothing else worth holding on to, now seems the perfect time to let go. But when she finds herself trapped in her local high school with five former classmates, and the dead won’t stop pounding on the doors, Sloane must confront everything she thought she knew about life, death, survival and sacrifice — and choose.
This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers
Meet Courtney Summers
Courtney Summers is an uncompromising writer known for a history of risky artistic choices and pushing boundaries with novels that are not for the faint of heart. She is a New York Times and Indie bestselling author and has received over 20 starred reviews and numerous awards and honors, including the Edgar and ITW Thriller Awards.
Six days before Samhain—the night when the veil between worlds is thinnest—Samantha Harker, daughter of Dracula’s killer, and Dr. Helena Moriarty, daughter of the famed criminal mastermind, are thrown into their next case: the mysterious disappearance of two Society field agents in Ireland. Only this time, the Royal Society is sending Jakob Van Helsing to keep an eye on them.
Sam and Hel may have solved the Paris case, but that doesn’t mean the Society trusts them. Sam has the power to slip into the minds of monsters, and Van Helsing has sworn to kill her at the first sign of corruption. And if Hel can’t prove her father’s existence, she’ll soon go down for his crimes.
Their investigation takes them from the crumbling ruins of Ireland’s untamed wilds to the occult societies of the rich and powerful. The connection between the Sam and Hel is electric, but as they fall deeper into each other’s orbit, their secrets only multiply. For Hel, it’s the sins she committed when she was her father’s pawn. For Sam, it’s a plague of death omens, mysterious black feathers, and a siren song no one else can hear. And then comes a chilling revelation that is poised to shatter everything: The agents who disappeared were each haunted by a ghost. And so, it seems, is Sam.