J.L. Delavega | Author-Reader Match: ASH LIKE VENGEANCE

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 J.L. Delavega!

Writes:

Dark-fantasy meets feminist weird western. Pray to the God of Mercy, the Revere women ride again in ASH LIKE VENGEANCE, the sequel to SMOKE AND OTHER STORMS. After lamenting the disgraceful lack of non-cliche female characters in westerns, as well as introverted characters whose introversion isn’t treated as a flaw, I decided to write the books I’d been searching for my whole life. The Revere Trilogy is my love letter to grandmothers, sisters, independence, and female strength in all its forms.

Welcome to the Rim.

About:

Aquarius - Restless desert spirit and lost half my soul in an unfortunate detour. ( If you’ve seen it, let me know. )

I believe in satisfying, logical endings, and chosen family always. Looking for readers who feel the same.

If you like cats - I have two black ones with vampire teeth-- and things with satisfying textures, we will get along just fine. If I show you to one of my favorite nature spots it means we’re friends. Just never tell me you don’t like my clothes. I probably made them myself.

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

• Feminists
• Grumpy female MC trope lovers
• Introverts
• Fans of Jay Kristoff and Paulette Kennedy
• Affinity for steampunk culture
• Those who played RDR2 and wished Sadie Adler was the main character.

What to expect if we’re compatible:

• Blood.
• Female MCs who take up space and don’t apologize for it
• Sisters and chosen family
• An appreciation for bones
• An average amount of worms
• Introvert representation
• Cats
• Blood

ASH LIKE VENGEANCE by J.L. Delavega

The Revere Trilogy #2

The history books, retelling the story of a fell-fated expedition to the West Rim, won’t remember the name of the Stranger, a woman who loved her family and worshiped her freedom. But the rest of the Rim will.

What remains of the Revere family vows vengeance on their once-partners the loss of their train and the deaths caused by it.

In Hannah, the black refinery dust stains the sun red, and the streets are haunted. Adelaide the Stranger stalks the men responsible for her capture and her sister’s death. But she is not the only ghost. Alone and miles from her family in the mining settlement where she was born, she is forced to finally reckon with her mother’s memory, long buried but never dead–or become one.

Tesla the Widow has found sanctuary with old friends, but not peace. For progress waits for no woman to load her gun and she has no intention of hiding forever, especially when Adelaide’s ransom note comes.

As the shadow of east-blood expansion creeps west, the Reveres risk everything they have left on secret chemistry project and the ultimate ammunition heist will give them leverage over the railroad expansion, and the chance to restore the promise their family name once held.

But this is the Rim. Trustworthy deals are rare as water, fragile as dawn, and only the ruthless live long enough to see it change Seasons.

So let it be dark. Let it be bloody. Let us pray—for red is the color of revenge.

Suspense | Fantasy [City Owl Press, On Sale: August 8, 2023, e-Book, / ]

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About J.L. Delavega

J.L. wrote her first stories as a five-year-old about two cats finding a secret room in a treehouse. It was habit forming. Raised a homeschooler, she liked the woods and didn’t play sports. Instead, she wrote about talking rabbits, pioneers, cursed caves, superhumans, and a six-book kid-detective series. They were not good. She also doesn’t remember learning how to read, so it is possible she was born with that ability.

Her heart is in the desert and mountains, even when the rest of her can’t physically be there. (Which explains a few things.) When not writing she makes other things, like historical clothing, and believes Victorian era fashion should absolutely make a comeback, as long as sweatpants still exist. She loves black cats, the smell of hot pines, and thinks vowel sounds are the most interesting part of language.

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