It's A Raymond Chandler Evening
It's a Raymond Chandler evening
And the pavements are all wet
And I'm lurking in the shadows
'Cause it hasn't happened... yet
-- Robyn Hitchcock
It's a Raymond Chandler evening
And the pavements are all wet
And I'm lurking in the shadows
'Cause it hasn't happened... yet
-- Robyn Hitchcock
Bloodwives -- Raedwulf stumbles into the Danelaw after the murder of her family, herself and two of her father's men the only survivors. Though she swore vengeance on the traitor lord and the bloodthirsty Jarl he paid to kill her family, all she can do is harry their lands and steal back her silver, with the help of her two soldiers, the skald Anke, the priest Torkill, and the Jarl's daughter Maerwynn. Then King Alfred comes to negotiate a new treaty with the Danes, and Raedwulf has one chance to expose the usurper and reclaim her family seat.
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Hell Caster -- Lily Moore's sister has been murdered. Back in her hometown, Lily faces all the things she hoped she'd left behind: her ex-boyfriend, her family's fears, her old ghosts. Driven by the demons she brought with her along the way, she untangles the events surrounding her sister's death and finds a new sense of direction, if not out of the horror, then a little further through it.
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Bitch Craft -- Lily is trying to pick up her life again several months after the events surrounding her sister's death. But it turns out she's not the only one trying to adjust to life with one foot in the demon dimension. Sequel to Hell Caster
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[Grumpy Old Mercs] -- Pippa di Raffello is a fleet captain in the Galactic Armada. Her wife Moriah is a covert reconnaissance agent for Galactic Intelligence. Their ex-husband is the commander of a fallen city-ship. And the Transhuman Virus no nation will acknowledge exists is taking over the galaxy ship by ship, station by station, while they try to find a way to save their people.
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The Sea-Glass Box -- In a family-owned antique shop in the small coastal town of Dorchester, a man has a sackful of goods for sale. Among them is a small box decorated with sea-glass, credibly the work of Depression-era local craftsman and celebrity Reginald Webb. But knick-nacks and kitsch weren't the only things Reginald Webb made, and his genius came at a heavy cost.
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The Jade-Eyed Girl -- The slow devastation of the world has finally come to Dorchester, with rolling power outages, mechanical failure, chaotic weather, and increasingly fraying tempers. Tessa knows it all started with the disappearance of her friend, and she's been trying to track down causes and reasons and figure out how it all pieces together. But she is running out of time, and she knows just enough to be afraid of what is yet to come.
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Lifestyles of the Witch and Famous - Camilla Rochester's wedding to Konstantinos Bryennios is supposed to be the peak of the sisters' fall events. But someone is trying to kill the bride, their cousin, and as newly arrived as the three of them are to such old magic, they're about to find out their entire family are newcomers compared to something much, much older.
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16 June 2021 Updated web page to reflect developments over the last year-and-a-few-months, the 2020 pandemic and its effects. Ugh.