Product Details
Pocket, November 2009
Mass Market Paperback, 416 pages
ISBN-10: 1439109656
ISBN-13: 9781439109656
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Chapter 1
Description
Atlanta: it's the promised city for the off-worlders, foreigners from the alternate dimensions of heaven-like Elysia and hell-like Charbydon. Some bring good works and miracles. And some bring unimaginable evil....
Charlie Madigan is a divorced mother of one, and a kick-ass cop trained to take down the toughest human and off-world criminals. She's recently returned from the dead after a brutal attack, an unexplained revival that has left her plagued by ruthless nightmares and random outbursts of strength that make doing her job for Atlanta P.D.'s Integration Task Force even harder. Since the Revelation, the criminal element in Underground Atlanta has grown, leaving Charlie and her partner Hank to keep the chaos to a dull roar. But now an insidious new danger is descending on her city with terrifying speed, threatening innocent lives: a deadly, off-world narcotic known as ash. Charlie is determined to uncover the source of ash before it targets another victim -- but can she protect those she loves from a force more powerful than heaven and hell combined?
How did you come to write this book?
Charlie, the main character of the book, came to me several years ago. All I had was a title, a faint notion of a world that had already come to terms with the supernatural, and a strong desire to write about a single mom, a woman with the inner strength to pull herself to her feet and make a stand when everything seems lost. In real life, we are equipped with this amazing ability to continue on despite incredible devastations and obstacles, and that's one of the aspects I wanted to explore. I wanted to give Charlie a serious job to do set within a dangerous and diverse paranormal world, but also give her a sense of realism, a history that gave her an ex-husband and a child. I wasn't sure it would work, but once I got into the story, everything seemed to fall into place. Things got wonderfully complex, intense, and very real.
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