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A Shrewdness of Swindlers
Dames, detectives, and deception...magic meets the decadence of the Roaring Twenties in ten tales of glitter and jazz. The year is 1929. It's two months after the financial collapse on Wall Street, and the world is bating its breath, unsure of what will happen next. Is it the end of an era? At the Honeybee's Sting, a speakeasy in the basement of a laundry, a group of unusual figures meets to discuss the past-and perhaps some possible futures: the Detective turned writer, the Dame who's older than she looks, the Vampire who's been riding the financial markets for generations, the Spy from across the ocean, the Actress who's only just learned the truth about Hollywood, and more. But one of their number is missing, a man connected to the mob, a man who holds the prize for a mysterious storytelling contest-a prize that can give you your heart's desire. Ten stories, woven together in the style of The Canterbury Tales, follow the contest along a long, dark night where nothing is what it seems and the best way to tell the truth is to lie. Pour yourself a cocktail and join us at the liar's table for the divine, the slapstick, the tragic, the transcendent 1920s today!
Last Hope of the Roadkill
Two co-workers, and isolated Colorado highway, and something from out of this world...
The House Without a Summer
The year is 1816, in Northamptonshire. A red, spiderwebbed haze covers the sun. Temperatures drop, fields flood and freeze, grain rots on the stem. The people are starving, and even the wealthy and titled are affected by shortages. Sickness spreads as a red fungus overtakes fields, seals over windows, and infiltrates cellars.On the way back from the Napoleonic Wars in France, Marcus, the younger son of the Earl of Penderbrook, returns to find his brother dead, the estate covered in fungus, and his father sinking into madness.The last thing Marcus wants to do is be responsible for Penderbook; he wants only to spend the rest of his life playing cards, drinking, and seducing other men's wives. ...
The Clockwork Alice
Everyone fears death, the great unwinding...Ticking clocks echo through an enormous English country house. A watercolor over the mantle ripples. A woman sleepwalks, pulled by moonlight and dreams, until she stands under the painting, the last gift she was given by author Lewis Carroll, on the eve of her wedding.Her name is Alice. And on the other side of the painting, Wonderland is calling to her. One last time.Tick...tock...tick...In Wonderland, one only works in one's sleep.All proper Wonderlandians spend all night, every night, hard at work, winding the great clock of Wonderland - the Master Chronometer - of which all other Wonderlandians are but synchronized slave clocks. At night, one understands that one is made of clockwork, although, of course, one pretends otherwise when one is awake. To do otherwise would make the current madness of the daylit Wonderlandians look like stark sanity. Besides, it's only polite.
Alice's Adventures in Underland
The real story behind Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?It was a Britain that had been overrun by a plague of zombies.A Britain that had fought the zombies, not quite won, and yet declared victory.The rabid dead had been mercifully put down. The less virulently infected were treated with a sort of fungal "tea" that kept their urges to eat their fellow men at bay. With a bit of effort and discipline, one of the Infected could be right as rain.Oxford Don Charles Dodgson is one of the Infected dead, but an altogether charming fellow nonetheless. A fabulous mathematician, and a follower of the new "fad" of photography. Fond of children. Little girls especially. But not fond of eating them.Most of the time. The dean of Christchurch College, Henry Liddell, has three willful young daughters, quite bright, wonderful at games: Lorina, Alice, and Edith. With a little supervision, he can certainly keep three of such charming girls entertained-With a tale of the place the Infected dead come from. Underland.A tale of gaslamps, dark fantasy, and gothic horror delights.Part 1 of Alice's Adventures in Underland. Part 2 is Alice's Adventures in Underland: The Knight of Shattered Dreams.
Your Soufflé Must Die
REVENGE IS BEST SERVED FOR DESSERT.With her first cooking class (as a teacher!!!) coming up, her catering business starting to take off, and her heart starting to recover from her divorce, Sam Genoise wants nothing more than an easy night of blogging at her playful foodie website, www.FoodSlutOnline.com. Then a Horrible Internet Troll does the unthinkable: he threatens her soufflés. Sam blows it off as a prank...¿but two batches of soufflés fall. During her cooking class. After she just tried to explain to her students that soufflés are easy. Sam Genoise's soufflés don't fall. Ever.Now Sam's out for revenge, investigating ex-husbands, ex-chefs, so-called friends, and movie-star foodies while a serial dessert killer slaughters her best work.Will Sam be next?An offbeat cooking cozy, first in the Sweet Granadilla series, for foodies with an adventurous palate.
A Murder of Crows
"What everyone want to see," the crow said, "is someone getting eaten. Preferably someone who deserves it."Out in the middle of nowhere in the Great Plains of the United States, it doesn't matter where you are, really, or even what year it is. All that matters is whether you have enough to eat before the winter sets in.Whether your family loves you or shuns you, and whether or not you have a way to keep from going mad, those things don't matter so much.The girl has little else but stories. But the main problem is that her mother is going mad, mad in a way that wrecks the lives and sanity of everyone around her, and may even warp reality itself. The house creaks and groans and twists, as the corruption consumes everyone-almost everyone-within.Fortunately, the crows find the girl outside and alone. And they love stories.The monsters are coming. At least the little girl has never been very heavy?Seventeen murderous, ravenous tales told by the crows, to help heal a girl without food, without love, and now without home. Unless her mother comes to reclaim her?
Alice's Adventures in Underland
The real story behind Through the Looking-Glass... It was a Britain that had been overrun by a plague of zombies. A Britain that had fought the zombies, not quite won, and yet declared victory. The rabid dead had been mercifully put down. The less virulently infected were treated with a sort of fungal "tea" that kept their urges to eat their fellow men at bay. With a bit of effort and discipline, one of the Infected could be right as rain. Oxford don and reluctant member of the undead Charles Dodgson has been banished from the Liddell household at the behest of Dean Henry Liddell's wife, and forbidden the presence of her daughters. Dark accusations against Dodgson abound, fostered by their m...
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