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Heart of Dust
H. L. Moore
“Doran had a problem, and it wasn’t that he’d been stabbed.”
Iole City is in turmoil.
Doran Ó Seanáin, leader of the Black Lung Gang, is determined to challenge the Archon, Arajon’s tyrannical ruler, for his brutal treatment of the miners.
But Doran has more to deal with than getting stabbed and a city-wide lockdown that’s seeing his gang of ex-miners slowly starved out of their base. His daughter Grace has turned against him, and the death of his wife haunts them both.
Although he finds reprieve in Nathaniel Morgenstern, the apotheker with a mysterious past to whom he owes his life, the clock is ticking.
The fate of the mines hangs in the balance and the Archon is closing in.
Doran’s plan to break the cycle may very well be his last.
Page Count: 205 Pages
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Age Category: Adult
Date Published: February 18, 2018
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This was one of the excerpts that I read this year and it started with a lot of action, I was very intrigued by the underground resistance and that everything felt quite high stakes. This made the character dynamics very interesting, the main character has a nothing to lose attitude and the rest of the gang are not all agreeing with each other, I felt like this would provide a lot of tension in the story and make me really invested in the characters.
H. L. Moore (she/they) is a writer of LGBT+ speculative fiction. Moore is the author of the Death’s Embrace queer fantasy romance series and the Tales from the Jovian Empire queer science fiction novellas.
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Thank you so much for the spotlight!
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