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 expos 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. Romantic fantasy readers will find a lot to love."Ī young human painter and an ageless gentry queen fall in love over spilled wine-at the risk of his life and her immortality. Throughout, Cooney's descriptions are extravagant and gorgeous, and the musical cadence of her prose makes it exceptionally easy to be drawn into the worlds she weaves. "Cooney's lush follow-up to Desdemona and the Deep offers five stories linked by an intricate shared world. Fran Wilde, two-time Nebula Award-winning author of Updraft and Riverland If Titania herself were to commission a book, it would be this one." "Welcome to a Gilded Era like you've never before known and will never be able to forget. Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List for Best Collection Locus Award finalist for Best Story Collection
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