Megan Bannen | Author-Reader Match: THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It's our great pleasure to present Megan Bannen!

Writes:

I enjoy crafting fantasy fiction with a love story at its center. My young adult tragedies have earned me a reputation as an author who is happy to rip out a reader’s heart and stomp all over it, but my adult debut, THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY, is a fantastical, joke-filled romantic comedy (that will also rip out readers’ hearts, but in a has-a-happy-ending kind of way).

What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match:

• Appreciates feisty banter and a good laugh.
• Is fond of prickly demigods with marshmallow centers.
• Likes a perky undertaker who is trying to keep the family business afloat.
• Feels that there is a serious lack of sarcastic talking animals in adult fantasy.
• Embraces the weird.

What to expect if we're compatible:

• So many feelings. All the feelings. - sings - Feelings, nothing more than feelings
• Lots of f-bombs.
• Endearingly awkward sex scenes.
• A loud, loving family that is all up in your business.
• Quite a few dead bodies. And also undead bodies.

THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY by Megan Bannen

Hart is a marshal, tasked with patrolling the strange and magical wilds of Tanria. It’s an unforgiving job, and Hart’s got nothing but time to ponder his loneliness.

Mercy never has a moment to herself. She’s been single-handedly keeping Birdsall & Son Undertakers afloat in defiance of sullen jerks like Hart, who seems to have a gift for showing up right when her patience is thinnest.

After yet another exasperating run-in with Mercy, Hart finds himself penning a letter addressed simply to “A Friend”. Much to his surprise, an anonymous letter comes back in return, and a tentative friendship is born.

If only Hart knew he’s been baring his soul to the person who infuriates him most—Mercy. As the dangers from Tanria grow closer, so do the unlikely correspondents. But can their blossoming romance survive the fated discovery that their pen pals are their worst nightmares—each other?

Romance Fantasy | Humor [Hachette Books, On Sale: August 23, 2022, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780316394215 / eISBN: 9780316394314]

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About Megan Bannen

Megan Bannen is a former public librarian whose YA debut The Bird and the Blade was an Indies Introduce Summer/Fall 2018 pick, a Summer 2018 Kids’ Indie Next List pick, and a Kirkus Best YA Historical Fiction of 2018 pick. While most of her professional career has been spent behind the reference desk, she has also sold luggage, written grants, collected a few graduate degrees from various Kansas universities, and taught English at home and abroad. She lives in the Kansas City area with her husband and their two sons.