Switchblade Goddess
Published on 27. December 2011
336 pages
978-0-345-52182-8 (ISBN)
Description
Hell hath no fury like a goddess scorned.
When Jessie Shimmer traveled to a nightmare underworld to save her lover, Cooper Marron, she gained magical powers . . . which soon seemed more like curses. Her beloved familiar, the ferret Pal, became a monster. Her enemies multiplied like demons. Worst of all, she hasn't found a moment of peace to be with the man she adores.
Now a switchblade-wielding demigoddess commanding a private hell stocked with suffering innocents is after her. The blademistress' vengeance sends Jessie and Pal on a dark journey through strange, perilous realms. Their quest for salvation will push her newfound abilities-and her relationship with Cooper-to the breaking point . . . and beyond.
When Jessie Shimmer traveled to a nightmare underworld to save her lover, Cooper Marron, she gained magical powers . . . which soon seemed more like curses. Her beloved familiar, the ferret Pal, became a monster. Her enemies multiplied like demons. Worst of all, she hasn't found a moment of peace to be with the man she adores.
Now a switchblade-wielding demigoddess commanding a private hell stocked with suffering innocents is after her. The blademistress' vengeance sends Jessie and Pal on a dark journey through strange, perilous realms. Their quest for salvation will push her newfound abilities-and her relationship with Cooper-to the breaking point . . . and beyond.
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Lucy A. Snyder is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Spellbent and Shotgun Sorceress, as well as the story and poetry collections Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. Her writing has appeared in Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Hellbound Hearts, Doctor Who Short Trips: Destination Prague, Chiaroscuro, GUD, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. A Texas native, she lives in Worthington, Ohio, with her husband and occasional co-author, Gary A. Braunbeck.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Part One - Burning Souls
- Chapter One - Trouble
- Chapter Two - Argument
- Chapter Three - Portals
- Chapter Four - Send-Offs
- Chapter Five - Hellement
- Chapter Six - Retribution
- Chapter Seven - The Sisters Jackson
- Chapter Eight - Potion
- Chapter Nine - Sara's Mission
- Chapter Ten - Frittata con Gaga
- Chapter Eleven - Into the Desert
- Chapter Twelve - Negotiations
- Chapter Thirteen - Miko's Hell
- Chapter Fourteen - Uncle Roy
- Chapter Fifteen - Goad Hunt
- Chapter Sixteen - Afterlives
- Chapter Seventeen - Familiar in a Coma
- Chapter Eighteen - Facing Sara
- Part Two - Green Dragon
- Chapter Nineteen - Castaways
- Chapter Twenty - Come Clean
- Chapter Twenty-one - The Apology
- Chapter Twenty-two - Confessions
- Chapter Twenty-three - Catastrophe
- Chapter Twenty-four - Madame Devereaux
- Chapter Twenty-five - Distraction
- Chapter Twenty-six - The Promise
- Chapter Twenty-seven - Meat
- Chapter Twenty-eight - Motivation
- Chapter Twenty-nine - Mercy
- Chapter Thirty - Revelations
- Chapter Thirty-one - Sap Daddy
- Chapter Thirty-two - The Cure
- Chapter Thirty-three - Pawn Takes Knight
- Chapter Thirty-four - A Bad Day
- Chapter Thirty-five - Purification
- Chapter Thirty-six - Heat
- Chapter Thirty-seven - Aftermath
- Chapter Thirty-eight - The Conversation
- Chapter Thirty-nine - Family Matters
- Author's Note
- Acknowledgments
- Other Books by This Author
