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Unintentionally, eSpec has three offerings in January, Yeti Left Home (cryptid/urban fantasy) by Aaron Rosenberg, Phoenix Precinct (fantasy police procedural) by Keith R.A. DeCandido, and The Corpse Fauna Chronicles (zombies) by James Chambers. You can read more about these books below. Once you do, we hope you will click the links below to head over to NetGalley and request them.
Yeti Left Home
Aaron Rosenberg
Small-Town Yeti, Big-City Problems
Peaceful, unassuming Wylie Kang—a Yeti with an appreciation for more human creature comforts—lives a quiet life in his self-built sanctuary on the outskirts of Embarrass, Minnesota. But when violent dreams disturb his peace, and a series of strange murders plague the area, a Hunter comes to town, nosing after Wylie’s trail.
Fleeing pursuit, Wylie packs up his truck and heads for the Twin Cities, hoping to lose himself in the urban jungle, only to find a thriving supernatural community.
Just as he begins to settle in—with the help of some new-found friends—he discovers the bloodshed has followed… as has the Hunter.
Can Wylie catch the killer, before the Hunter catches him?
Phoenix Precinct
Keith R.A. DeCandido
Humans and elves, dwarves and gnomes, wizards and warriors all live and do business in the thriving, overcrowded port city of Cliff’s End, to say nothing of the tourists and travelers who arrive by land and sea, passing through the metropolis on matters of business or pleasure—or on quests. The hard-working, under-appreciated officers of the Cliff’s End Castle Guard work day and night to maintain law and order as best they can.
A fire in the neighboring city-state of Barlin has resulted in hundreds of refugees pouring into Cliff’s End, forcing the creation of a new neighborhood—Albinton, which everyone calls “New Barlin”—and a new police precinct—Phoenix Precinct. Violence against the refugees is on the rise. Lieutenants Danthres Tresyllione and Torin ban Wyvald are called to the latest act of brutality, which has resulted in a vicious murder. But what appears to be a simple hate crime turns out to be far more complicated, as Danthres and Torin’s investigation leads them to corruption in the Castle Guard—and in the castle itself!
An all-new adventure of the Cliff’s End Castle Guard!
The Corpse Fauna Chronicles
James Chambers
A chronicle of survival in a world of the living dead.
There is no Heaven or Hell; there is only blood and the dust of flesh.
The Corpse Fauna Chronicles
A vast, malevolent darkness streams across the cosmos. A plague of the living dead sweeps over the Earth. Those left alive scramble for survival like insects feasting on a corpse. And from dead flesh stare a million unnatural eyes. Will the balance of the world tilt to life—or death? Only a handful of the living will decide. Manipulated by undead powers, they travel rough roads of deprivation and danger, finding themselves snared in a web spun by saints and sinners with control of the reanimated dead.
Cornell, one-time bank robber seeking only freedom.
Della, nurse escaping the prison of her past.
Burke, former military scientist clinging to the last of his sanity.
Vale, abandoned, finding her true strength in the world of the dead.
These four and a handful of others must discover the truth behind what brings the dead back to life and what they desire from the living.
Forget the meek. Will the living or the dead inherit the Earth?
Find out in The Corpse Fauna Chronicles. Collected here for the first time in one volume is the complete Corpse Fauna cycle of novellas, short stories, and illustrations, a saga of horror and survival more than twenty-five years in the making.
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