Cherie Priest

Durante la guerra civil, el inventor Leviticus Blue creó un ingenio capaz de atravesar el hielo de Alaska, donde se rumoreaba que se había encontrado oro. Nació así la increíble máquina taladradora Boneshaker. Sin embargo, la Boneshaker no funcionó adecuadamente, y destruyó el centro de Seattle, provocando un estallido de gas venenoso que convirtió a quienes lo respiraban en muertos vivientes. Pasan dieciséis años, y un muro rodea la tóxica y devastada ciudad. Al otro lado vive la viuda Briar Wilkes, con una reputación arruinada y un hijo, Ezekiel. El joven se embarca en una cruzada secreta y su búsqueda lo llevará tras el muro, a una urbe repleta de voraces zombis, piratas aéreos, hampones y guerrilleros. Y solo Briar puede salvar a su hijo.

Eden Moore was orphaned at birth and brought up by her mothers beautiful sister Lulu. Even as a child Eden was never alone, three ghostly sisters watched from the shadows, longing to tell her their story. Always kept in the dark about her past, as an adult Eden goes looking for answers, to what really happened to her mother, and to the terrifying secret that lurks at the heart of her family history. Soon she is in a desperate race to uncover the truth before a new and deadly enemy destroys what is left of her family..

Eden Moore can see dead people, or rather, she can see ghosts. However, when reports emerge of silent spectres in ragged uniforms appearing on the fields at of Chickamauga, GeorgiaAmericas oldest military park terrifying tourists and park rangers alike, Eden is not interested, preferring to let a team of celebrity ghost hunters answer the spirits plea. Why do the ghostly soldiers march again? The apparitions need an intermediary, someone who can speak to them, and for them. Eventually reluctant medium, Eden, is drawn to the heart of the unearthly mystery.

Durante la guerra civil, el inventor Leviticus Blue creó un ingenio capaz de atravesar el hielo de Alaska, donde se rumoreaba que se había encontrado oro. Nació así la increíble máquina taladradora Boneshaker.Sin embargo, la Boneshaker no funciono adecuadamente, y destruyo el centro deSeattle, provocando un estallido de gas venenoso que convirtio a quienes lo respiraban en muertos vivientes.Pasan dieciseis años, y un muro rodea la toxica y devastada ciudad. Al otro lado vive la viuda Briar Wilkes, con una reputacion arruinada y un hijo, Ezekiel. El joven se embarca en una cruzada secreta y su busqueda lo llevara tras el muro, a una urbe repleta de voraces zombis, piratas aereos, hampones y guerrilleros. Y solo Briar puede salvar a su hijo.

Inconsistent psychic Leda Foley and Seattle detective Grady Merritt return to solve the case of a missing couple in this sequel to the delightful (TheNew York Times Book Review) mystery Grave Reservations.When psychic travel agent Leda Foley is approached by a man searching for his sister, she quickly agrees to help. The missing woman disappeared with a vintage orange car, a fat sack of her employers cash, and a grudge against her philandering husbanda man who never even reported her missing.Meanwhile, Seattle PD detective Grady Merritt has temporarily misplaced his dog. While hes passing out bright pink Lost flyers at the Mount Rainier visitors center, the wayward pooch appearswith a human leg in his mouth.Thanks to DNA matching, Grady learns that the leg has something to do with Ledas new client, and soon the two cases are tangled.Theories abound, but law enforcement is low on leads. Lucky for Grady, Leda has a few ideas that might just be crazy enough to work. Theyll need one yellow dog, a fair share of teamwork, and perhaps a bit of Klairvoyant Karaoke to piece the clues together in this undeniable treat (Gwenda Bond, New York Times bestselling author) of a mystery.

La popularidad de Maria Isabella Boyd como espía confederada la inhabilita para desempeñar semejante labor, por lo que empieza a trabajar, muy a su pesar, para la agencia nacional de detectives Pinkerton de Chicago. La nave Clementine, un dirigible de transporte federal con un cargamento altamente secreto, debe llegar sin demora a su destino, pero esta siendo salvajemente acosada. Su incansable perseguidor es el pirata aereo Croggon Hainey, un esclavo fugitivo buscado por las autoridades desde hace quince años. El deber de Maria es atraparlo, pero cuando fuerzas ajenas conspiran contra ambos, deciden arriesgarse y formar una alianza? Alguien, en algun lugar, va a lamentar el dia en que se cruzo con ellos.

Durante la guerra civil, el inventor Leviticus Blue creó un ingenio capaz de atravesar el hielo de Alaska, donde se rumoreaba que se había encontrado oro. Nació así la increíble máquina taladradora Boneshaker.Sin embargo, la Boneshaker no funciono adecuadamente, y destruyo el centro de Seattle, provocando un estallido de gas venenoso que convirtio a quienes lo respiraban en muertos vivientes.Pasan dieciseis años, y un muro rodea la toxica y devastada ciudad. Al otro lado vive la viuda Briar Wilkes, con una reputacion arruinada y un hijo, Ezekiel. El joven se embarca en una cruzada secreta y su busqueda lo llevara tras el muro, a una urbe repleta de voraces zombis, piratas aereos, hampones y guerrilleros. Y solo Briar puede salvar a su hijo.Cherie Priest ha alcanzado un notable exito con su novela Boneshaker, avalada por numerosos premios. La mezcla de generos y los personajes bien definidos la acercan a autores como P. Bacigalupi, por sus desoladores futuros alternativos, o al trepidante S. Westerfeld.

When a devastating storm swells the Tennessee River to dam-breaking levels, panic rises. With then gushing waters came a tide of animated corpses: twenty-nine victims of a long-ago slaughter are patrolling the banks, dragging the living down to a muddy grave. No one remembers how they died, and no one knows what they want. Now reluctant medium Eden Moore must dredge up secrets about a long-buried crime that continues to be covered up, before the zombie army can add hundreds more to their ghastly ranks.

Delightful. TheNew York Times Book ReviewA psychic travel agent and a Seattle PD detective solve a murder in this quirky mystery in the vein of Lisa Lutzs The Spellman Files and Charlaine Harriss Aurora Teagarden series.Meet Leda Foley: devoted friend, struggling travel agent, and inconsistent psychic. When Leda, sole proprietor of Foleys Flights of Fancy, impulsively re-books Seattle PD detective Grady Merritts flight, her life changes in ways she couldnt have predicted. After watching his original plane blow up from the safety of the airport, Grady realizes that Ledas special abilities could help him with a cold case he just cant crack. Despite her scattershot premonitions, she agrees for a secret reason: her fiances murder remains unsolved. Ledas psychic abilities couldnt help the case several years before, but shes been honing her skills and drawing a crowd at her favorite bars open-mic nights, where she performs Klairvoyant Karaokesinging whatever song comes to mind when she holds peoples personal effects. Now joined by a rag-tag group of bar patrons and pals alike, Leda and Grady set out to catch a killerand learn how the two cases that haunt them have more in common than they ever suspected.

Josephine Early, New Orleans brothel owner and Union spy, has a mission. And it might just end the Civil War. She must deliver Ganymede, an astonishing prototype submarine, to the North. But the giant war machine is at the bottom of a lake, no one has safely piloted it and she must sneak its huge bulk past enemy forces. Luckily, she knows the right man for the job. She hasnt seen former lover and air-pirate Andan Cly for years, but has a sweet job to tempt him back. He agrees to help, but his primary mission is to retrieve supplies for blighted Seattle, where noxious gas has forced residents underground and undead rotters menace the city. Although legit, the Seattle run makes Cly uncomfortable. He no longer flies sap, disapproving of the drugs ugly side-effects, and the job is funded with sap money. Josephines jaunt could be a great distraction. But will they make history, or end up at the bottom of the ocean?Priest is at the top of her game ... the best yet Publishers Weekly, Ganymede centres on intrigue and espionage, SFRevu.com, Alternative history storytelling at its finest BookSlut.com

Ex-spy Belle Boyd is retired more or less. Retired from spying on the Confederacy anyway. Her short-lived marriage to a Union navy boy cast suspicion on those Southern loyalties, so her mid-forties found her unemployed, widowed and disgraced. Until her life-changing job offer from the staunchly Union Pinkerton Detective Agency. When shes required to assist Abraham Lincoln himself, she has to put any old loyalties firmly aside for a man she spied against twenty years ago. Lincolns friend Gideon Bardsley, colleague and ex-slave, is targeted for assassination after the young inventor made a breakthrough. Fiddlehead, Bardsleys calculating engine, has proved the world is facing an extraordinary threat. Meaning its not the time for civil war. Now Bardsley and Fiddlehead are in great danger as forces conspire to keep this potentially unifying secret, the war moving and the money flowing. With spies from both camps gunning for her, can even the notorious Belle Boyd hold the war-hawks at bay? Cherie Priest has been hailed as the High Priestess of Steampunk - and you can see why in this latest wonderfully written adventure.

Adventures await Rector Wreck em Sherman. About to turn eighteen, hes facing ejection from the orphanage that passed for home. He should also choose a trade, but work is scarce in steam-powered Seattle. And Rector has more unconventional plans. Hes started dealing in sap, a yellow narcotic produced by rebels and outlaws within the citys toxic walled enclave. Whats worse, hes been sampling his wares. Other problems include being haunted by an old friend with a grudge. The pressure builds until he sneaks behind the wall himself, seeking both (un)gainful employment and excitement. As rumoured, he finds a terrifying host of the hungry undead, and then theres the monster. Rectors certain that his attacker wasnt human, or undead. But hes going to need more proof than his own addled word to expose it. His new mission becomes a compulsion when others witness the creatures destructiveness, and give its kind a name. The Inexplicables. Praise for the series: Everything youd want pure mad adventure Cory Doctorow, Adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions Scott Westerfeld, Cherie Priest is the high priestess of steampunk The Seattle Times

WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Ezekiel Blues father committed a crime, unleashing a deadly menace into steampowered Seattle. And his bereaved family has paid the price. Now, Ezekiel is determined to clear his fathers name, risking death and the undead in the attempt. Sixteen years ago, as the American Civil War dawned, gold brought hordes to the frozen Klondike. Fanatical in their greed, Russian prospectors commissioned Dr Leviticus Blue to create a great machine, to mine through Alaskas ice. Thus the Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine was born. But the Boneshaker went awry, destroying downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas. Anyone who breathed its fumes turning into the living dead. The devastated city is now walled in to contain the blight. But unknown to Briar, his widowed mother, Ezekiel is going in. His quest will take him into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive. Adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions this book is made of irresistibleScott Westerfeld, This is a hoot from start to finishCory Doctorow,Intelligent, exceptionally well written and showcasing a phenomenal strong female protagonist Publishers Weekly

Nurse Mercy Lynch is recently widowed, but the war has further unpleasant surprises in store. While working in a Confederate hospital, she receives word that her estranged father is dying and wants to see her. But reaching the far side of the country will be a harrowing adventure though war-torn border states.When her dirigible is shot out of the sky, Mercy is forced to join the mighty Union-operated steam engine known as the Dreadnought. But the journey turns deadly when they are beset by bandits, then attacked by Rebel soldiers. The train is moving away from the battle front, so Mercy cant imagine why theyre so interested. Unless the trains mysterious cargo is responsible?Mercy just wants to see her father before he dies. But shell have to survive Union intrigue and Confederate opposition to make it off the Dreadnought alive.Pure genius Im not exaggerating the potential of Priests Clockwork Century Paul Goat AllenExceptional ... the real draw is Priests latest no-nonsense heroine Publishers WeeklyThe historical setting is finely detailed, the action is nonstop Booklist

A new dark historical fantasy from the “supremely gifted”* Cherie Priest, author of Mapelcroft and Boneshaker.In the trenches of Europe during the Great War, Tomás Cordero operated a weapon more deva

BAD TO THE BONE Vampire thief Raylene Pendle doesnt need more complications in her life. Her Seattle home is already overrun by a band of misfits, including Ian Stott, a blind vampire, and Adrian deJesus, an ex-Navy SEAL/drag queen. But Raylene still cant resist an old pals request: seek out and steal a bizarre set of artifacts. Also on the hunt is a brilliant but certifiably crazy sorceress determined to stomp anyone who gets in her way. But Raylenes biggest problem is that the death of Ians vaunted patriarch appears to have made him the next target of some blood-sucking sociopaths. Now Raylene must snatch up the potent relics, solve a murder, and keep Ian safeall while fending off a psychotic sorceress. But at least she wont be alone. A girl could do a lot worse for a partner than an ass-kicking drag queenright?

From Cherie Priest, the award-winning author of Maplecroft, comes a new tale of Lizzie Bordens continuing war against the cosmic horrors threatening humanityBirmingham, Alabama is infested with malevolence. Prejudice and hatred have consumed the minds and hearts of its populace. A murderer, unimaginatively named Harry the Hacker by the press, has been carving up citizens with a hatchet. And from the church known as Chapelwood, an unholy gospel is being spread by a sect that worships dark gods from beyond the heavens. This darkness calls to Lizzie Borden. It is reminiscent of an evil she had dared hoped was extinguished. The parishioners of Chapelwood plan to sacrifice a young woman to summon beings never meant to share reality with humanity. An apocalypse will follow in their wake which will scorch the earth of all life.Unless she stops it

Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.... The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. With our inheritance, my sister, Emma, and I have taken up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea and far from gossip and scrutiny. But it is not far enough from the affliction that possessed my parents. Their characters, their very souls, were consumed from within by something that left malevolent entities in their place. It originates from the oceans depths, plaguing the populace with tides of nightmares and madness. This evil cannot hide from me. No matter what guise it assumes, I will be waiting for it. With an axe.

VAMPIRE FOR HIRE Raylene Pendle (AKA Cheshire Red), a vampire and world-renowned thief, doesnt usually hang with her own kind. Shes too busy stealing priceless art and rare jewels. But when the infuriatingly charming Ian Stott asks for help, Raylene finds him impossible to resisteven though Ian doesnt want precious artifacts. He wants her to retrieve missing government filesdocuments that deal with the secret biological experiments that left Ian blind. What Raylene doesnt bargain for is a case that takes her from the wilds of Minneapolis to the mean streets of Atlanta. And with a psychotic, power-hungry scientist on her trail, a kick-ass drag queen on her side, and Men in Black popping up at the most inconvenient moments, the case proves to be one hell of a ride.