Aviva Grossman is a young woman interning for a congressman when they begin an affair. He’s almost as old as her parents and married. It’s the early days of the internet and she keeps an anonymous blog about it, with seemingly few readers. But after an incident brings to light the possibility of their relationship the blog is found and Aviva is torn apart by the media. The congressman, of course, comes out relatively unscathed. Unable to find work after becoming horrendously Google-able, Aviva changes […]
“This entire exercise was stupid.” Never truer words spoken
17 year old Ginny receives a package of envelopes from her estranged Aunt Peg, the first letter instructing her to get on a plane to London and to not read any of the other letters until she has completed the task set in the previous one. Peg has set up an account for her that will (supposedly) cover all the crazy antics she has planned for her niece over the summer. In London, Ginny stays with Peg’s friend Richard, befriends an artist called Keith, and […]
The End is the Beginning
An alliance has formed between the angels and chimaera. A shaky alliance hinging on the deception of Karou and Ziri, her Kirin kin. After being attacked by Thiago, Karou killed him and put Ziri’s soul in Thiago’s body. Now the young Kirin has to make everyone believe he is the White Wolf, and that joining with the seraphim is their only option. Their new foe? Akiva’s uncle, Jael. He has learned about the portals to Earth and, thanks to the fallen seraphim Razgut, knows of […]
The War is Over. The Killing Continues
Karou’s family is gone. The chimaera have been decimated. The city of Loramendi has fallen. The seraphim had learned the secret of the chimaera resurrection – that every lost solider’s soul was gleaned and returned to a new body by Brimstone – and with his death the angels were able to finally win the war for Eretz. Lost in her grief, Karou meets up with Thiago, the son of the Warlord who commanded the chimaera troops. In her past life as Madrigal, which she now […]
I’m a Poor Person, Get Me Out of Here!
New Yorker Rachel Chu has been dating Nicholas Young for two years when he invites her to his best friend’s wedding in Singapore. It’ll be the starting point of a grand summer adventure of travel and amazing food, and the chance to meet all his friends and family. What Nick hasn’t told Rachel is that his family is rich. Crazy, stinking rich. The sort of money that’s difficult to fathom. His grandmother lives in a house so grand it might as well be a palace, […]
Don’t read this when you’re home alone!
In the 1970s, the East Area Rapist terrorised California by committing 50 rapes. His crimes had escalated from peeping to burglary until he began threatening women, tying them up and attacking them. They escalated again when he chose victims whose male partners were present. Later, after his crimes took a deadlier turn when he murdered twelve people, he was known as the Original Night Stalker. McNamara coins her own name for him, The Golden State Killer. Putting together decades of history in a readable, easy […]