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![]() In the coming days, she unearths a world built on secrets, a series of shocking crimes, and herself, alone. Kate infiltrates the community and goes deep under cover. She travels to New York where she's briefed and assumes her new identity as a lone widow seeking a new life. But Kate can't turn her back, especially when the rumor mill boils with disturbing accounts of children in danger. ![]() Kate's long time love interest, State Agent John Tomasetti, is dead set against her taking on such an unorthodox assignment, knowing she'll have limited communication - and even less in the way of backup. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unable to penetrate the wall of silence between the Amish and "English" communities, the sheriff asks Kate to travel to New York, pose as an Amish woman, and infiltrate the community. Critical Acclaim for AMONG THE WICKED 'Castillo builds suspense brilliantly, using both the snowbound setting and the difficulty of working as an undercover Amish woman to great advantage.'-Booklist Readers will be enthralled as Kate uncovers secrets in a quaint Amish community. Linda Castillo is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Kate Burkholder mystery series, set in the world of the Amish. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called upon by the sheriff's department in rural, upstate New York to assist on a developing situation that involves a reclusive Amish settlement and the death of a young girl. ![]() ![]() Upon waking, Rainsford takes in the rough and wild jungle landscape. When he realizes that he cannot swim back to the boat, he decides to swim toward the island, where he washes up on shore and falls into a deep sleep. 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They'll earn enough money to live comfortably for years. ![]() Until the crew are offered the job of a lifetime: the chance to build a hyperspace tunnel to a distant planet. Life on board is chaotic, but more or less peaceful - exactly what Rosemary wants. The crew is a mishmash of species and personalities, from Sissix, the friendly reptilian pilot, to Kizzy and Jenks, the constantly sparring engineers who keep the ship running. ![]() The Wayfarer, a patched up ship that's seen better days, offers her everything she could possibly want: a small, quiet spot to call home for a while, adventure in far-off corners of the galaxy, and distance from her troubled past.īut Rosemary gets more than she bargained for with the Wayfarer. When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. ![]() ![]() ![]() You’d think this would be a given across fiction, alas it is not. The desert is not all barren and sandy, instead dotted with oases and port towns. Cities are sprawling metropolises, and each one they visit feels different. It is set in a fictional Middle Eastern land whose geography is every bit as diverse as I know the Middle East to be. It flies in open defiance of every narrative that ever tried to make that part of the world seem like a monolith. The Stardust Thief takes that assumption, that defeat, and throws it right out the window. After a while I began to take those stories for what they were, accepting there wasn’t really space for people like me in fantasy. ![]() Many were Eurocentric – or imitation-Europe centric – and if there happened to be a character that could be suggested to share my Middle Eastern heritage, it was a toss up as to whether or not they were the villains of the story, or at the very least the lackey of the villain. ![]() I’ve been a lover of the fantasy genre since childhood, and while there are still stories within that genre I enjoy, they all began to feel a little too similar after a while. 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Mark follows suit with another grappling hook, and pretty soon the two are walking around in the Berg trying to figure out what's going on. Phew.Īmid the shooting, Alec takes out a grappling hook (from who knows where) and shoots it onto the Berg. People drop like flies (including Darnell), but Alec, Mark, Trina, Lana, Misty, and the Toad escape. It's super-rare for a Berg to show up, and the people who come out of the Berg shoot up the village with darts. The conflict begins when a Berg shows up at the settlement-that's right, a Berg (a giant airship that WICKED uses back in Book Two and Book Three of the series-it's basically a plane, but with more rooms). They're all survivors of the sun-flares, and they're living together in a village somewhere. There's Mark, Trina, Alec, Lana, Misty, the Toad, and Darnell. So we have a bunch of new characters to get to know. Right from the beginning, we're told that the story takes place thirteen years earlier than the Maze. 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This new critical edition situates After London in a tradition of mid-late Victorian texts that respond to the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and responds to a host of other key social, political, and cultural issues of the period. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. A scholarly edition of a significant and exciting late Victorian science fiction novelRichard Jefferies After London is uncanny and intriguing, an adventure story, quest romance, dystopia, and. 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