Saturday, June 14, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW SERIES BY ZOE DAWSON
THE STARBUCK CHRONICLES, BOOK #1
An Adult Urban Fantasy (with romantic elements)
Releases May 19, 2014
Series Overview

The fine thread between reality and the fantastical has snapped. The mortal and supernatural must learn to co-exist in post-reality Minneapolis/St. Paul where video games leak monsters into the night, demons roam, thirsting for more than just blood, people are not who or what they seem and a diabolical evil plots and plans to devour the world.
AfterLife
Lily Starbuck’s day doesn’t start well with blood on the horizon and a grumpy werewolf who refuses to pay his catering bill. Her day only gets worse when she finds out that her business partner in their catering company has embezzled all their available cash.
Lily can get no answers from her partner when she finds her dead. That’s the least of her worries—her landlord is evicting her, she’s being hounded by the Fairy Dust Administration (FDA) who suspects that her partner was dealing in illegal dust, and Lily’s pissed off their werewolf supplier.
With Lily’s very livelihood in jeopardy, she has no choice but to discover who killed her partner and try to track down the cash. She has only Spocko, a small, wizened gnome with just a bit of gremlin blood in him that makes him cantankerous at best to depend on, but he often goes invisible on her. Clues lead her to an open case being investigated by Otherworld Security (O.S.) and the tough O.S. Warden, shapeshifter, Tam Darkwood. And, at the outset of the investigation, a tiny, mythical fire-breathing, red dragon joins her as her trusty (and opinionated) sidekick, Kindle.
It seems a rogue mage has created a video game that is unwarded and game monsters are being released to terrorize the citizens of the Twin Cities. Trouble is Lily has reason to believe that this mage killed her partner.
The investigation takes an unexpected turn when they are led to influential and powerful Archmage Tarquin Wilding and somehow Lily finds herself embroiled in a sinister shadow Fae plot. With her friends at her side, she tackles dangerous and unpredictable supernaturals and monsters with an “all in a day’s work” attitude.
About the Author
Zoe Dawson is the alter ego of Karen Anders, award winning, multi-published author. Her writing journey started with poetry and branched out into fiction. With a couple of college English courses under her belt, she penned a historical, then moved onto contemporary romance fiction. Today, she is happy producing romantic suspense, romantic mystery, urban fantasy and paranormal novels. The words feed her soul and the happily ever afters feed her heart.
Review by Connelly:
I always find reading the first in a paranormal series a difficult because the author has to develop the rules for the alternate world or paranormal beings and develop the story. This can be quite difficult to get right. While I think Dawson stumbled a little, a few chapters into the story I was living in her new version of the twin cities. Full of murder, magic, sex, heartache, forbidden love, violence and butt-kicking heroines, this is a wild ride and proves to be a series on my must read list. I would enjoy a couple of the scenes to have more details but Dawson leaves a good bit up to the reader’s imagination. I also find the ending frustrating but that is the way it goes with a series. I have questions I want answered, I am hoping to find them in the second novel. I give the book 4 out of 5 stars. I received a copy of the arc for fair review.
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