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New Release and Contest from Karen Mercury! |
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We're excited to announce the release of a third novel by Karen Mercury!
Love intriguing historical adventures full of heat?
Arm chair traveling into the past awaits you. http://karenmercury.com/ 
Strangely Wonderful by Karen Mercury
Publisher: Medallion Press
ISBN-10: 1933836024
ISBN-13: 978-1933836027
IT'S 1828, AND LIFE IS GOOD FOR THE PIRATES OF MADAGASCAR...
Read an excerpt: http://karenmercury.com/excerpt3.html
Buy Online Their Captain is the Hungarian Count Tomaj Balashazy, a refugee from the United States Navy. Count Balashazy rules the coast from his tropical plantation, a fortress built against enemies he's made cruising the Indian Ocean. Tomaj feels guilt at the loss of his family in New Orleans, and he wallows in clouds of opium, soothed by courtesans. When the American naturalist Dagny Ravenhurst, seeking the dreaded and mystical aye-aye lemur, falls into Tomaj's lagoon, it's the beginning of the end of arcadian bliss on the island.
In the central highlands, the French industrialist Paul Boneaux commands his empire of factories. As the special pet of psychotic Malagasy Queen Ranavalona, Boneaux enjoys a monopoly over all manufacturing, commerce, and his mistress. Beholden to Boneaux, Dagny and her two brothers need his patronage to survive. Dagny's joyless scientific heart melts for the Count's poetic nature, pitting the two adversaries against each other. Boneaux yearns for progress and industry, Tomaj for liberty and peace.
When the King dies--or is he murdered?--the Queen gives free reign to her merciless anti-European impulses. The island boils with blood, and only one world can emerge triumphant.
In Madagascar's utopian paradise, all is... Strangely Wonderful | | | Reviews...
"The setting gives this novel all the strangeness the reader could desire, and is written with a sly irony by the author, who received high acclaim for her previous books, THE HINTERLANDS and THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLD." C. L. Rossman ~ Armchair Interviews
"The lead triangle is fully developed protagonists whose sexual activities make the equator feel like a polar cap." Harriet Klausner ~ Genre Go Round Reviews | | | CONTEST CONTEST CONTEST
Win an adorable stuffed sifaka lemur from Becca's Workshop AND a $40 Amazon Gift Certificate.
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