Synopses & Reviews
As soon as Sophie Hansa returned to our world, she is anxious to once
again go back to Stormwrack. Unable to discuss the wondrous sights she
has seen, and unable to tell anyone what happened to her in her time
away, Sophie is in a holding pattern, focused entirely on her eventual
chance to return.
With the sudden arrival of Garland Parrish,
Sophie is once again gone. This time, she has been called back to
Stormwrack in order to spend time with her father, a
Duelist-Adjudicator, who is an unrivaled combatant and fearsome
negotiator. But is he driven by his commitment to seeing justice
prevail, or is he a sociopath? Soon, she discovers something repellent
about him that makes her reject him, and everything he is offering.
Adrift
again, she discovers that her time spent with her father is not without
advantages, however, for Sophie has discovered there is nothing to stop
her from setting up a forensic institute in Stormwrack, investigating
cases that have been bogged down in the courts, sometimes for years. Her
fresh look into a long-standing case between two of the islands turns
up new information that could get her, and her friends, pulled into
something bold and daring, which changes the entire way she approaches
this strange new world....
About the Author
A.M. DELLAMONICA is the author of Indigo Springs, which won the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Realms of Fantasy, Sci-Fiction and Strange Horizons,
and in numerous anthologies; her 2005 alternate-history Joan of Arc
story, “A Key to the Illuminated Heretic,” was shortlisted for the
Sideways Award and the Nebula Award. Dellamonica lives in Vancouver,
British Columbia.