Projected release June 2013.
BRONZE GODS, a steampunk fantasy wrapped around a whodunnit, where gaslight detectives solve ritual slayings.
Blurb:
“Under the hill” isn’t the pastoral utopia it once was. The original population–the Ferishers–have long since interbred with the humans who crossed over. Now there are no pure bloods left, and there are noble houses formed on the basis of how much Ferisher blood is left in their lineage. Ferisher blood permits human descendants to work small magics and cast glamours. The fey who refused to share their world with the interlopers fell into the Fade; their bodies withered and died, leaving them hungry, angry spirits that haunt the countryside. Some citizens can summon those spirits and use them to gain strength and power. In this book, there’s murder, mayhem, dark rituals, theatre, forbidden romance, a dark stranger who has been called the Lord of Spiders, a drug-addicted gray knight who works as a cop, and a genealogist cursed with sensing lies.