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 Laura Anne Gilman!
Writes:
From urban fantasy to horror to historical fantasy, with a few stops along the way for romance and mystery, my writing’s earned me the reader-bestowed hashtag of #DarkCozy. Things might get a little spooky, there’s probably going to be some blood spilled along the way, but the dog never, ever dies.
In my Huntsmen novels, the year is 1913. America – and the world – trembles on the edge a modern age. Political and social unrest shift the foundations, technology is beginning to make its mark. But in the shadows, things from the past still move. Things inhuman, uncanny. And the Uncanny are no friend to humanity.
In UNCANNY VOWS, Rosemary and Aaron Harker are Huntsmen, part of a not-entirely-secret organization dedicated to protecting humanity. They—and their hellhound, Botheration— are sent to discover what is attacking a well-to-do family in Boston, and stop it. But what they find is far more complicated than it seems…
About Me:
Jersey Girl, currently living in the Pacific Northwest (or the Northwet, as we call it). You’re as likely to find me on the trail as behind the desk, occasionally in a kayak, but always, always with a notebook and pen to-hand. The way to my heart is through a good meal, a nice glass of wine, or a hockey game, and you’re better like animals, because I volunteer as a shelter fosterer— at any given time there may be an adoptable kitten or pup roaming the house, in addition to my own.
Oh, and there is absolutely no truth to the rumor that Botheration was based on my own Cattle Dog-mix Maxi— Botheration is far better behaved.
What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match:
- Loves banter between characters
- Isn’t afraid to get a little noir in their fantasy
- Adores “found family” stories
- Wants to sink into a story and maybe never come out.
What to expect if we’re compatible:
- Snarky siblings
- 70% historical accuracy mixed with 30% I Totally Made That Up.
- Characters you’re going to wish you could hang out with, after the book is finished
- The desire to cuddle a hellhound (and maybe adopt a dog or two of your own)
Huntsmen
Following the events of the high-stakes and propulsive Uncanny Times, Rosemary and Aaron Harker, along with their supernatural hound Botherton, have been given a new assignment to investigate…but the Harkers believe it’s a set-up, and there’s something far more ancient and deadly instead.
Rosemary and Aaron Harker have been effectively, unofficially sidelined. There is no way to be certain, but they suspect their superiors know that their report on Brunson was less than complete, that they omitted certain truths. Are they being punished or tested? Neither Aaron nor Rosemary know for certain. It may be simply that they are being given a breather or that no significant hunts have been called in their region. But neither of them believes that.
So, when they are sent to a town just outside of Boston with orders to investigate suspicious activity carefully, the Harkers suspect that it is a test. Particularly since the hunt involves a member of the benefactors, wealthy individuals who donate money to the Huntsmen in exchange for certain special privileges and protections.
If they screw this up…at best, they’ll be out of favor, reduced to a life of minor hunts and “clean up” for other Huntsmen. At worst, they will be removed from the ranks, their stipend gone—and Botheration, their Hound, taken from them.
They can’t afford to screw this up.
But what seems like a simple enough hunt—find the uncanny that attacked a man in his office and sent him into a sleep-like state—soon becomes far more complicated as more seemingly unrelated attacks occur. The Harkers must race to find what is shadowing them, before the uncanny strikes again, and sleep turns into murder—and the Huntsmen decide that they have been compromised beyond repair.
But their quarry may not be the only uncanny in town. Botheration and Aaron both sense something else, something shadowing them. Something old, dangerous…and fey.
Fantasy [Gallery / Saga Press, On Sale: November 28, 2023, Trade Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781534415966 / eISBN: 9781534415973]
Laura Anne Gilman is the author of more than twenty novels, including the Nebula award-nominated The Vineart War trilogy. Her newest project is the Devil’s West series from Saga Press/ Simon & Schuster, beginning with 2015’s Endeavor award-nominated Locus-bestseller SILVER ON THE ROAD, and continuing with 2017’s THE COLD EYE.
She has also dipped her pen into the mystery field as well, writing as L.A. Kornetsky.
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