Cooney’s DARK BREAKERS will transfix and transform you, and, should you chance upon its characters in a glittering hallway, you had best be wearing your fanciest moonlight, and be ready to dance. “Welcome to a Gilded Era like you’ve never before known and will never be able to forget. In her introduction to DARK BREAKERS, Crawford Award-winning author Sharon Shinn advises those who pick up this book to “settle in for a fantastical read” full of “vivid world-building, with layer upon layer of detail prose so dense and gorgeous you can scoop up the words like handfuls of jewels a mischievous sense of humor and a warm and hopeful heart.” Cooney that expand on the thrice-enfolded worlds first introduced in her Locus and World Fantasy award-nominated novella DESDEMONA AND THE DEEP. Two gentry queens of the Valwode plot to hijack a human rocketship and steal the moon out of the sky.ĭARK BREAKERS gathers three new and two previously uncollected tales from World Fantasy Award-winning writer C. Returning to an oak grove to scatter her husband’s ashes, an elderly widow meets an otherworldly friend, who offers her a momentous choice. An investigative reporter infiltrates the Seafall City Laundries to write the exposé of a lifetime, and uncovers secrets she never believed possible. Pulled into the Veil Between Worlds, two feuding neighbors (and a living statue) get swept up in a brutal war of succession. A young human painter and an ageless gentry queen fall in love over spilled wine-at the risk of his life and her immortality.
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