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UNKNOWN
February 2026
On Sale: February 8, 2026
ISBN: 1936364468
EAN: 9781936364466
Kindle: B0GM994SH2
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Horror | Fantasy Dark
For the two house cats, Love and Murder, their pampered lives are appreciated as their due. Adored by their owner, how could life be otherwise? Anyone observing the interplay between the two—the signs of affection and irritation, the disagreement and the decision to act in concert, the boredom followed by intense activity—will recognize their own darlings in these two. And then everything changes.
In Love & Murder, Katie Christine Bishop introduces her creations to a world they had heard about but had not experienced. They are suddenly thrust into this world where, outside of their particular clique, gangs in their interminable quest for food and control of its origins, exist to dominate one another; where compassion is seen as weakness in that it is so often associated with relinquishing something—like food or safety; where betrayal by both the strong and the weak becomes normalized and every behavior is based on the mentality of threat and transaction. And on top of it all is the impact of a changing climate. In the past, felines endured rain as a passing inconvenience, but now rain brings floods and floods bring death and alter topography.
Katie Christine Bishop has written a book for our era, and for this and her literary skill in depicting the interaction between food scarcity, environmental catastrophe, the will to dominate and innate feline behavior, Black Heron Press has awarded her the 2025 Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction.
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