The Black Shuck’s forces gather just beyond the mist . . .
Captain Justice Kasric knows how complicated family can be. The escalating Human-Faerie war has scattered and wounded her siblings and transformed her parents beyond recognition. After narrowly escaping yet another dangerous clash, fifteen-year-old Justice has had enough. She’s determined to defeat the Black Shuck, the mysterious leader controlling the Faerie invasion of London, but if Justice hopes to stand a chance at victory, she’ll have to do the impossible: reunite her family and lead them against the looming Faerie Armada.
With her mother and brother at the helm of the enemy fleet, and the prophesized Seven Virtues slipping out of reach, Justice more than has her work cut out for her. Even if she can save England, the cost may be higher than she’s willing to pay.
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The Faerie have come to take London, and only one girl stands in their way.
Justice isn’t your average fifteen-year-old girl. She’s an irrepressible scoundrel, and she always has a plan. But her world falls apart when her father forcibly bundles the entire family into carriages in the middle of the night and carts them off to a strange mansion on the outskirts of Victorian London. The Faerie are invading, but the Kasric siblings can’t stay neutral in the ensuing war when they find their parents on opposing sides. Justice has no choice but to embrace her burgeoning magical powers to fight against the Faerie and save her family.
The tides of the Faerie War are turning, but at how high a cost for the Kasric family?
Justice Kasric, her siblings, and her parents are locked in combat on both sides of the Human-Faerie War. At fifteen, Justice may be the youngest ever Admiral to command her own ship and lead a resistance, but she has the magic and the will to do it. If only nearly every other member of her family weren’t either in immediate danger of dying—or attempting to kill her!
Forced to make dangerous pacts with more than one unpredictable ally, only Justice can decide how far she’ll go to save London. Is it worth sacrificing even a member of her own family.
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1. Did any research go into writing your books?
Absolutely! I did a lot of research on a huge variety of topics, from nautical terminology in the Age of Sail, to life in Victorian times and the various and many sources of mythology that go into Fairy stories all over Europe. It was a labor of many years and I wanted those details to feel right.
2. Where do you get inspiration for your stories?
Inspiration is easy. Like every other author out there, I grew up with a love for books and movies, so you’re constantly moving through a stream of ideas. You finish a book and think: ‘maybe I could write something like The Big Sleep, but with weasels, right? It’s taking those ideas and making them into something that people want to read that’s the difficult part.
3. If you could put yourself as a character in your series, who would you be?
Mostly, I wouldn’t if I could help it. I mean, books are people with fascinating characters, but they’re not usually having a fun time. Frodo, Fantine, Philip Louis de Pointe, Marlowe, Hamlet, Jay Gatsby, etc. Mine are no different, and mostly have a miserable time, pushing through impossible obstacle after obstacle. That being said, you have the chance to be a dragon for a little while, I’d have to take that.
4. Do you snack while writing? Favorite snack?
Coffee and lots of it. :^)
5. Are there any books or writers that have inspired your writing?
Every book, every writer. Most have been mentioned before, but here’s a bigger list: Roger Zelazny, Ernest Hemingway, Tanith Lee, A.C. Doyle, Emma Bull, Guy Gavriel Kay, Robert B Parker, Donald Westlake.
Christian Klaver has been writing for over twenty years, with a number of magazine publications, including Escape Pod, Dark Wisdom Anthology, and Anti-Matter. He’s the author of The Supernatural Case Files of Sherlock Holmes series, but has written over a dozen novels, both fantasy and sci-fi, often with a Noir bent. He's worked as book-seller, bartender and a martial-arts instructor before settling into a career in internet security. He lives just outside the sprawling decay of Detroit, Michigan, with his wife, Kimberly, his daughter, Kathryn, and a group of animals he refers to as The Menagerie. He’s also a part of the Untitled Writer’s Group based in Ann Arbor for the past decade or so with a bunch of equally starry-eyed dreamers and social misanthropes.
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