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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 ocean’s 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.
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“Priest takes the epistolary format H.P. Lovecraft was fond of and uses it to far better effect, both in terms of characterization and horror. Her protagonists…are extremely well drawn…Putting real historical characters in genre settings is an idea that’s seemed tired for a while, but this novel shows how compelling it can still be in the right hands.”
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RT Book Reviews (4½ stars)
About Cherie Priest
Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker was nominated for a Nebula
and Hugo Award, won the Locus Award for best science-fiction novel, and was
named Steampunk Book of the Year by steampunk.com. She is also the author of Dreadnought, Boneshaker’s sequel, and of
the near-contemporary fantasy Fathom.
She debuted to great acclaim with a trilogy of Southern gothic ghost
stories featuring heroine Eden Moore wich included Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Wings
to the Kingdom, and Not Flesh nor
Feathers. Born in Tampa, Florida, she earned her Master’s in rhetoric at
the University of Tennessee. She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her
husband, Aric, and a fat black cat named Spain.
About the Narrators
Johanna Parker is an Audie and Earphone Award–winning actress living and working in
San Francisco. Since narrating her first audiobook in 2002, she has received praise for her work in all genres, including her portrayal of Sookie Stackhouse in Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire
books. She received her BFA in acting from Boston University and studied
Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She has performed
on stages in London, Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York and has numerous film
and television credits. As a voice-over actress, she has
voiced commercials, video games, documentaries, and websites.
Roger Wayne served in the Air Force as a radio and television broadcast journalist in South Korea and won several awards before obtaining a BA degree in communications and journalism. He is an actor living in New York, narrating audiobooks, working on independent film projects, performing off Broadway, and auditioning for major network shows.