Love
In The Gilded Age (Fissure Chronicles, #1)
Release
Date: 10/28/14
Summary
from Goodreads:
Once
in a hidden queendom…
There is an ocean: In the infinite distance, between one hidden world and the
next, is an unmeasurable expanse of twenty seas. One sprawling edge of the
world to another is filled with waters as beautiful as they are deadly, as
miraculous as they are fraught. Treasure and treachery litter their ocean beds,
sleeping side by side with adventurers whose travels ended abruptly, lives
caught and held under a wave until all breaths fled.
There is a land: Tucked into a corner where four oceans fold together, land
rises up illustrious in a jagged slash of mountains and forests, with secrets
and wonders as plentiful as any water.
There are chronicles: Not of the twenty savage seas but of the fissure of land
and the people who sigh life into it.
In an original epic fantasy world, Love In The Gilded Age reimagines the heroes
and heroines of Grimm fairy tales as ethnically diverse, LGBT, disabled, and
gender flipped.
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EXCERPT:
Xanna drove herself forward, leaning into the run to
propel them along. Her mother was trailing behind her but didn’t have an option
except to follow as Xanna leapt from the last bit of land and crashed into the
pond. She heard Koal’s strangled shout as she broke the surface, gasping and
paddling wildly. She fought every bit of tiredness in her muscles as she
dragged her mother from the depths of the water; she emerged spluttering and
angry. “He will kill you for that,” her mother said without emotion. No fear
for her daughter’s life, no regret, no anger, just a blank statement of facts.
“No,” Xanna hissed. “I won’t be the one dying today.”
Saruuh Kelsey is the author of several novels for young adults, including the free Lux Guardians series and The Legend Mirror series. Her latest releases include THE BEAST OF CALLAIRE, the first novel of a new YA fantasy series, and a collection of diverse fairy tales in LOVE IN THE GILDED AGE. Find her online at saruuhkelsey.co.uk.
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