COVER REVEAL
AFTERLIFE
(THE STARBUCK CHRONICLES, BOOK #1)
BY ZOE DAWSON
Expected release is January 20, 2014
Adult Urban Fantasy (with romantic elements)
Cover designed by Jessica Allain
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.
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