Maplecroft
  • Published: 22 October 2014
  • ISBN: 9780451466976
  • Imprint: Ace
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $45.00
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Maplecroft

The Borden Dispatches

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In this chilling new dark fantasy series from the author of BONESHAKER, Lizzie Borden is recast as a hero, struggling to protect the world against a dark and unspeakable evil.

Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one....
 
The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. With our inheritance, my sister, Emma, and I have taken up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea and far from gossip and scrutiny.
 
But it is not far enough from the affliction that possessed my parents. Their characters, their very souls, were consumed from within by something that left malevolent entities in their place. It originates from the ocean’s depths, plaguing the populace with tides of nightmares and madness.
 
This evil cannot hide from me. No matter what guise it assumes, I will be waiting for it. With an axe.
  • Published: 22 October 2014
  • ISBN: 9780451466976
  • Imprint: Ace
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Cherie Priest

CHERIE PRIEST is the award-winning author of two dozen books and novellas. Her works have been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards for science fiction and have won the Locus Award (among others)—and have been translated into nine languages in eleven countries. Cherie lives in Seattle, Washington.

Also by Cherie Priest

It Was Her House First
The Drowning House
Brimstone
Chapelwood
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Praise for Maplecroft

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR MAPLECROFT:
"Cherie Priest is supremely gifted and MAPLECROFT is a remarkable novel, simultaneously beautiful and grotesque. It is at once a dark historical fantasy with roots buried deep in real-life horror and a supernatural thriller mixing Victorian drama and Lovecraftian myth. You won't be able to put it down!"
--Christopher Golden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of SNOWBLIND

"MAPLECROFT is dark and lyrical, haunting and brined in blood. It is as sharp as Lizzie Borden's axe -- and Borden herself is a horror heroine bar none. Cherie Priest is our new queen of darkness, folks. Time to kneel before her, lest she take our heads."
-- Chuck Wendig, author of BLACKBIRDS and THE BLUE BLAZES

"With Maplecroft, Cherie Priest delivers her most terrifying vision yet -- a genuinely scary, deliciously claustrophobic, and dreadfully captivating historical thriller with both heart and cosmic horror. A mesmerizing, absolute must-read!"
--Brian Keene, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE RISING and GHOUL

"Cherie Priest has long been a favorite author of mine, but with Maplecroft she has outdone herself. Grim, impeccably written, and deliciously disturbing, it's nothing less than a Gothic masterpiece, and represents Priest at the height of her power. Easily my favorite novel of the year so far."
-- Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE TURTLE BOY and KIN.

PRAISE FOR CHERIE PRIEST:
"Priest is amazing at detail, brilliant at transforming an imagined, impossible history in such a way that flying airships and a decades-long Yankee Invasion seems not only plausible but simply neglected in our history books." --LitStack

"Priest once again delivers a rousing adventure that demonstrates both her love of history and her definitive knack for playing with and bending it to fit the purpose of her captivating universe." --BittenByBooks.com

"Priest gives her readers an excellent time." --Bookslut

"Priest has a knack for instantly creating quirky, likable, memorable characters." --The Roanoke Times

"Priest kills as a stylist." -- Charles De Lint, Fantasy and Science Fiction

"Cherie Priest has mastered the art of braiding atmosphere, suspense and metaphysics." --Katherine Ramsland

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