Synopses & Reviews
Located on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Golgotham has been the city’s supernatural district for centuries. Populated by creatures from myth and legend, the neighborhood’s most prominent citizens are the Kymera, a race of witches who maintain an uneasy truce with the city’s humans… It has been several months since Tate Eresby developed her new magical ability to bring whatever she creates to life, but she is still learning to control her power. Struggling to make a living as an artist, she and Hexe can barely make ends meet, but they are happy. That is until Golgotham’s criminal overlord Boss Marz is released from prison, bent on revenge against the couple responsible for putting him there. Hexe’s right hand is destroyed, leaving him unable to conjure his benign magic. Attempts to repair the hand only succeed in plunging Hexe into a darkness that can’t be lifted—even by news that Tate is carrying his child. Now, with her pregnancy seeming to progress at an astonishing rate, Tate realizes that carrying a possible heir to the Kymeran throne will attract danger from all corners, even beyond the grave...
Review
"An entertaining story that demonstrates an amazing breadth of imagination and introduces a fascinating alternate society...an intriguing introduction to an environment peopled with eccentric and memorable characters."
-NightOwlSciFi.com
"Collins is especially skilled at portraying the sweaty, nervous moments when everything goes wrong and help is too far away...a very well done portrayal of a strange neighborhood amid our all-too-mundane reality.
-SFRevu.com
"Nancy A. Collins has reminded me why I loved [urban fantasy] in the first place...a lot of fun."
-BSCReviews.com
"[A] great beginning to what appears to be a fantastic new urban fantasy series. I look forward to reading the second story to see what the author does with this incredible and complex neighborhood."
-HuntressReviews.com
"[Collins] does an excellent job of bringing Golgotham and its unusual occupants vividly to life, yet grounding the story in reality. Compelling characters and dangerous drama add up to dynamic and exciting fun!"
-Romantic Times (4 stars)
Review
Praise for the Novels of Golgotham “Golgotham feels real, feels inhabited by real unreal people and places, and the whole book is just a joy to read.”—Simon R. Green,
New York Times bestselling author
“[I]nspires a sense of wonder akin to what you might have felt when first discovering J.K. Rowling’s Diagon Alley.”—Fantasy Literature
“Nancy A. Collins has reminded me why I loved [urban fantasy] in the first place…[She] has created a world that makes readers want to explore it and characters that the reader can not just care about but definitely like…I’m most certainly looking forward to more books in the series.”—BSC Review
“The Golgatham series is urban fantasy on a whole new level of extraordinary.”—Manic Readers “[R]omance, mystery, and action…The world of Golgotham is impossible to forget.”—Fresh Fiction
Synopsis
The author of the Sonja Blue series begins a new urban fantasy series about an artist who moves to Golgotham, New York City's underworld, and finds herself in the middle of a battle between humans and the locals. Original.
Synopsis
Like most Manhattanites, aspiring artist Tate can't resist a good rental deal-even if it's in the city's strangest neighborhood, Golgotham, where for centuries werewolves, centaurs, and countless other creatures have roamed the streets.
Her new landlord is a sorcerer name Hexe, who is determined to build his reputation without using dark, left-hand magic. As Tate is drawn into Hexe's fascinating world, they both find that the right hand does not always know what the left hand is doing-and avoiding darkness is no easy trick...
View our feature on Nancy A Collins' Right Hand Magic.
About the Author
Nancy A. Collins has authored more than 15 novels, numerous short stories, and served as writer for DC Comics' Swamp Thing for two years. She is a recipient of the HWA's Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Society Award, and has been nominated for the Eisner, John Campbell Memorial, World Fantasy and International Horror Guild Awards. Best known for her ground-breaking vampire character, Sonja Blue, her works include Sunglasses After Dark, her Southern Gothic collection Knuckles And Tales, & the Vamps series for Young Adults. She currently resides in the Cape Fear area of North Carolina with her fiancé, Tommy, and their Boston Terrier, Chopper.