Les Misérables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris's criminal underground in the wake of the French Revolution.
In the violent urban jungle of an alternate 1828 Paris, the French Revolution has failed and the city is divided between merciless royalty and nine underworld criminal guilds, known as the Court of Miracles.
Eponine (Nina) Thénardier is a talented cat burglar and member of the Thieves Guild. Nina's life is midnight robberies, avoiding her father's fists, and watching over her naïve adopted sister, Cosette (Ettie).
When Ettie attracts the eye of the Tiger – the ruthless lord of the Guild of Flesh – Nina is caught in a desperate race to keep the younger girl safe. Her vow takes her from the city's dark underbelly to the glittering court of Louis XVII.
And it also forces Nina to make a terrible choice – protect Ettie and set off a brutal war between the guilds, or forever lose her sister to the Tiger.
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Review: The Wolf Queen: The Hope of Aferi by Cerece Rennie Murphy
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- Category: Reviews
Cerece Rennie Murphy's The Wolf Queen: The Hope of Aferi was published by LionSky Publishing in October 2018.
Information about Cerece Rennie Murphy:
Cerece Rennie Murphy fell in love with science fiction at the age of seven, watching “Empire Strikes Back” at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C., with her sister and mom. It’s a love affair that has grown ever since. As an ardent fan of John Donne, Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut and Alexander Pope from an early age, Cerece began exploring her own creative writing through poetry.
She earned her master’s degrees in social work and international relations at Boston College and Johns Hopkins School for Advance International Studies, respectively, and built a rewarding 15-year career in program development, management and fundraising in the community and international development arenas – all while appreciating the stories of human connection told in science fiction through works like Octavia Butler’s “Wild Seed,” Frank Herbert’s “Dune” and “The X-Files.”
In 2011, Cerece experienced her own supernatural event -a vision of her first science fiction story. Shortly after, she beganwriting what would become thebest-selling Order of the Seerstrilogy. Order of the Seers was selected as one of The Best Kindle Books of 2014 by Digital Book Today.
Cerece lives in herhometown of Washington, D.C., with her husband, two children and the family dog, Yoda.
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Information The Wolf Queen: The Hope of Aferi:
To fight for her future, she must first discover the magic of her past
Once great and powerful sorcerers, the Amasiti were hunted to the brink of extinction by the Hir and his followers. For four hundred years, their legacy faded from memory waiting for the hope of Aferi to be renewed...
In the Land of Yet
At the edge of the Forbidden Forest
A young woman lives alone.
Forced to fend for herself after the brutal murder of her family, Ameenah Yemini has made a life for herself as a master tanner and farmer, only venturing into the world to earn her living then return to the safety and seclusion of her home.
Until a chance encounter brings her work to the attention of the powerful Hir.
And her careful life begins to unravel.
Drawn to the hidden magic that lingers in everything she touches, the new Hir insists on having her for himself, using the people around her to force Ameenah into his grasp.
When she realizes that her greatest enemy may hold the key to a secret she thought lost to her forever, Ameenah is determined to reclaim her stolen past. But, at what cost? As an ancient power waits to be unleashed, Ameenah's choices will make the difference between awakening a new magic or delivering it into the hands of evil.
REVIEW: THE WOLF QUEEN: THE HOPE OF AFERI BY CERECE RENNIE MURPHY
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Q&A with James Lovegrove about Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon
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- Category: Interviews
Risingshadow has had an opportunity to have a Q&A with James Lovegrove about his latest novel, Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon.
About the author:
James Lovegrove is the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin. He was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1998 and for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2004, and also reviews fiction for the Financial Times. He is the author of Firefly: Big Damn Hero with Nancy Holder and Firefly: The Magnificent Nine, and several Sherlock Holmes novels for Titan Books. He lives in south-east England.
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Author photo by Katie Vandyck.
About Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon:
It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a new client. Eve Allerthorpe - eldest daughter of a grand but somewhat eccentric Yorkshire-based dynasty - is greatly distressed, as she believes she is being haunted by a demonic Christmas spirit.
Her late mother told her terrifying tales of the sinister Black Thurrick, and Eve is sure that she has seen the creature from her bedroom window. What is more, she has begun to receive mysterious parcels of birch twigs, the Black Thurrick’s calling card...
Eve stands to inherit a fortune if she is sound in mind, but it seems that something - or someone - is threatening her sanity. Holmes and Watson travel to the Allerthorpe family seat at Fellscar Keep to investigate, but soon discover that there is more to the case than at first appeared. There is another spirit haunting the family, and when a member of the household is found dead, the companions realise that no one is beyond suspicion.
Q&A WITH JAMES LOVEGROVE ABOUT SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CHRISTMAS DEMON
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Review: Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon by James Lovegrove
- Written by Seregil of Rhiminee
- Category: Reviews
James Lovegrove's Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon was published by Titan Books in October 2019.
Information about James Lovegrove:
James Lovegrove is the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin. He was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1998 and for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2004, and also reviews fiction for the Financial Times. He is the author of Firefly: Big Damn Hero with Nancy Holder and Firefly: The Magnificent Nine, and several Sherlock Holmes novels for Titan Books. He lives in south-east England.
Click here to visit his official website.
Information about Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon:
It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a new client. Eve Allerthorpe - eldest daughter of a grand but somewhat eccentric Yorkshire-based dynasty - is greatly distressed, as she believes she is being haunted by a demonic Christmas spirit.
Her late mother told her terrifying tales of the sinister Black Thurrick, and Eve is sure that she has seen the creature from her bedroom window. What is more, she has begun to receive mysterious parcels of birch twigs, the Black Thurrick’s calling card...
Eve stands to inherit a fortune if she is sound in mind, but it seems that something - or someone - is threatening her sanity. Holmes and Watson travel to the Allerthorpe family seat at Fellscar Keep to investigate, but soon discover that there is more to the case than at first appeared. There is another spirit haunting the family, and when a member of the household is found dead, the companions realise that no one is beyond suspicion.
REVIEW SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CHRISTMAS DEMON BY JAMES LOVEGROVE
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Cover reveal: Anna and the Moonlight Road by Thomas Welsh
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- Category: Others
COVER REVEAL:
Anna and the Moonlight Road by Thomas Welsh
Risingshadow is proud to host the cover reveal of Anna and the Moonlight Road by Thomas Welsh. Anna and the Moonlight Road is a sequel to Anna Undreaming and the second novel in the Metiks Fade trilogy.
Here is the beautiful cover image of Anna and the Moonlight Road:
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Review: Flowers of War by Mark Howard Jones
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- Category: Reviews
Mark Howard Jones' Flowers of War was published by Black Shuck Books in August 2019.
Information about Mark Howard Jones:
Mark Howard Jones comes from a town in south Wales where it once rained fish. A former BBC journalist, he is editor of the anthology Cthulhu Cymraeg: Lovecraftian Tales From Wales and author of the collections Songs From Spider Street and Brightest Black. He lives in Cardiff.
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Information about Flowers of War:
Black Shuck Shadows brings you a pocket-size sample from the best in modern horror.
Featuring:
Travelling Across the City in Autumn
Landfall
The Cobwebbed Bird House
A War Unfought
REVIEW: FLOWERS OF WAR BY MARK HOWARD JONES
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