Andrew Post

Amber Hawthorne and Jolene Morris, roommates and business partners at the Hawthorne Funeral Home, are drowning in debt. Because both young women have trouble keeping their partying habits in line, they start selling body parts on the black market to keep their business alive - and their new buyers seem friendly and trustworthy enough at first. That is until the dead gangster they've recently parted up turns out to have been full of disease. Now Amber and Jolene's buyers want something else to make up for lost profits, leaving the two undertakers to learn sometimes running your own business can cost you an arm and a leg. Literally. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

Chop Shop

When Melanie, a car thief, is sent to find a certain vehicle only to discover it’s owned by dangerous hit-woman, Brenda, the two begin to wonder if their fateful encounter wasn’t just pure coincidence. It turns out they both work for a man named Felix Eberhart, who may or may not have had the hopes that Melanie and Brenda opened fire the second they laid eyes on each other. Melanie learns that Felix’s network of car thieves, fixers, and drug runners have all been set against one another. But why? Business was going so well... FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

Mondo Crimson

Zilch has a very strange life. But then, when you work for the Confab, a shadowy agency whose sole purpose is to keep the public safe from the things that go bump in the night, even the very strange starts to seem normal. But when Zilch scrabbles out of the grave holding his newest recently vacated corpse shell, he finds out he’s been sent to the one place he flat-out refused to ever go — home. As he trudges down the main thoroughfare of his North Carolina childhood hometown, gearing himself up to find the lusus (short for lusus naturae — a freak of nature), handle it, and get out before the precious few nanobugs in his corpse suit are exhausted, he meets Galavance. More accurately, she runs him over with her pink Chevy Cavalier. So begins an adventure that intertwines the two, whether they like it or not, because the lusus Zilch is after squelches uncomfortably close to the trailer Galavance calls home. Balancing wit and horror on the edge of a monster-killing blade, Aftertaste is a wild ride through life, afterlife, and the American South.

Aftertaste

As a kid, Cassetera Robuck has it hard enough, suffering from a nerve disorder that makes her legs useless. Then the apocalypse happens. To survive, Cassetera and her family make a new home on an abandoned oil rig on Lake Superior. There, she and her father discover a machine: one that can take things apart molecule by molecule and reassemble them. Ten years later, her family all but lost, Cassetera heads into an apocalypse-torn Duluth, Minnesota, to find a man who calls himself the Fabulous Thadius Thumb, head writer and ringleader of the Thickskulled Thespian Troupe. He’s also a resistance leader and knows how to use the machine. Meanwhile, the Regolatore work from a few dimensions over, escalating catastrophes with machines all too similar to Cassetera’s. When she becomes their target, Cassetera finds herself in a web of betrayal, murder, and the mystery of her own multidimensional existence. Can she uncover the truth behind the apocalypse before life on this universe ends?

The Siren House

Anoushka Demaine and her fearsome tank squad know war. Thirty years ago, for a reasonable rate, they could be hired to fight for anyone. Now, with the war between Rammelstaad and the orcs threatening to spread, Anoushka wants to get the team back together. But it was a lot easier to be a hero back then. Because not only does Rammelstaad’s queen want her enemies vanquished; now she wants the story of her victories read far and wide. Any would-be champions for the realm must be joined by a bard who will write their story—with enough spin to inspire awe and fear. Anoushka’s squad trust the slippery bard Ruprecht LeFevre about as far as they can throw him, but she knows she and her squad can get the job done—even if the bard turns their efforts into pulpy trash. They’ll cooperate if it lets them go back to the good old days of bullets, blood, and rock ’n’ roll. Five squaddies, a bard, and a dog. Their target: some necromancer. Great. Got it. Get in the tank.

Rusted Heroes

Sephorina Breathland would do anything for her family. She'd even trick men into coming home with her so her kinfolk can kill them and drink their blood. Because the Breathlands are anything but your typical gaggle of podunks. Sephorina's mama has been pregnant with twins for nine years and is ready to pop. Her daddy lives in the bathtub trying to regrow the arms and legs he lost after the neighbors caught him eviscerating their cattle. And her brother, Hughie, believes that maybe with their pops laid up, it should be him who calls the shots. And while every family has its secrets, none has a secret as dark as theirs. And when Sephorina discovers it, she's going to call for a family meeting-and bring along a freshly sharpened hatchet. Because the Breathlands might have their problems, but they are getting sorted out tonight.

Milk Teeth

"Richtig spannende Science-Fiction mit Krimianteilen" [Lesermeinung] "Eine Geschichte, die einen abwechselnd in die Magengrube schlägt, gefangen hält und dann fast ausknockt als es zu einer bestimmten Wendung kommt. Zum großen Finale kommt konnte ich das Buch nicht mehr aus der Hand legen und musste wissen wie es ausgeht. Eine klare Leseempfehlung von mir." [Lesermeinung] Inhalt: Brody ›Knuckleduster‹ Calhoun ist ein Gangster, darauf spezialisiert, gewalttätige Ehemänner aufzuspüren und zusammenzuschlagen. Auf diese Weise verdient er sich das Geld für die teuren Batterien, mit denen seine speziellen Karotin-Linsen angetrieben werden. Denn ohne diese ist er blind, seit er das Augenlicht während seiner Zeit beim Militär verlor. Für Fremde ist er einfach nur ein Junkie mit seltsamen, orangefarbenen Augen. Für die Polizei ist er ein Wiederholungstäter mit einem beachtlichen Vorstrafenregister – über siebzehn Fälle von schwerer Körperverletzung, alle mit einer tödlichen Waffe ausgeführt: seinem Schlagring. Als Brody einer Einladung seines alten Freundes Thorp Ashbury ins ländliche Illinois folgt, ahnt er noch nicht, welche Ereignisse er damit in Gang setzt. Thorps Schwester wird vermisst, und Brody nutzt die Chance, auf diese Weise der Gewalt der Stadt zu entfliehen. Doch seine Suche nach dem vermisstem Mädchen führt ihn auf die Spur einer erschreckenden Verschwörung, die die Grundfesten all dessen erschüttert, woran er bisher geglaubt hat. Eine Verschwörung, die Brody zwingt, sich seiner eigenen Zukunft zu stellen.

SciFi-Thriller

KNUCKLEDUSTER

Clyde has worked for Mr. Wilkshire for a very long time. Life is comfortable in his keeper's chateau—until Mr. Wilkshire is attacked. Clyde goes into hiding and emerges to find his only friend dead. Brokenhearted and clueless how to bring Mr. Wilkshire's killer to justice, Clyde accepts the help of a unique group of friends, including Flam the Mouflon treasure hunter and Nevele the royal stitcher. Throughout their adventure, Clyde learns he isn't alone in this world with his magical ability: there are others like him called fabrick weavers, and for all it is both a special gift and a curse. His gift is to ease the conscience of anyone who makes a confession to him, but the curse is that the person’s luck will be reduced in proportion to the severity of the offense. Having left his pampered life behind to set things right, Clyde joins his new friends traveling into the razed city of Geyser, into the labyrinthine world beneath, and to the palace beyond. Along the way, the group deals with an unrelenting maniac pursuer, a corrupt king, a band of pirates, a small army of guardsmen, and just a few million dog-sized bugs—all while hopefully managing to avoid jinxing their own members. Yeah, no problem.

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