To Dream the Blackbane by Richard J. O'Brien #Promo @RRBookTours1 / Books Teacup and Reviews

Hello Book Lovers! I’m pleased to be part of To Dream the Blackbane tour, organized by R&R Book Tours. Congratulations to author Richard J. O’Brien, on the release of his latest novel, To Dream the Blackbane!

Book Details

To Dream the Blackbane
Publication Date: December 29th, 2018
Genre: Fantasy/ Urban Fantasy

Synopsis

A cosmic event in 2015 fused Earth with the faerie realm. Scientists referred to the event as The Anomaly. A byproduct of The Anomaly was the advent of hybrid beings—people who became mixed with whatever animal or object was closest to them the moment the event occurred. Humans, or pedigrees, soon relegated fairy refugees and hybrids into ghetto zones in large cities.

Seventy years later, Wolfgang Rex, a second-generation hybrid—part human, part Rhodesian Ridgeback—is a retired police detective who runs a private investigation business in Chicago’s Southside. It’s a one-hybrid show; though Rex couldn’t survive without his assistant, the faerie Sally Sandweb.

One night, two vampires visit Rex and offer him a substantial reward for the recovery of a stolen scroll. Later that same evening, Charlotte Sweeney-Jarhadill, a pedigree woman from Louisiana, visits Rex and hires him to exorcize the headless ghost of a Confederate soldier from her home.

To complicate matters, the private detective ends up falling for Charlotte. Meanwhile, the vampires demand results in the search for the missing scroll. When Rex’s assistant Sally goes missing, he must stay alive long enough to find her. Charlotte and the vampires, however, have other plans for Rex.

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Excerpt

“The history of our people has been stolen,” the one on the right announced. “My name is Verlaine, by the way. My associate here is Rimbaud.”
Vampires were notorious for taking the names of dead poets. I don’t know why, and I didn’t care. All I knew was that I wanted them out of my office.
“Are we talking a book—” I began.
“A scroll,” said Rimbaud. “It stands three and a half feet tall and it’s made from goat skin. Runic symbols cover the skin.”
“And where did you see this scroll last?”
“Inside the trunk we store it in at our keep atop the Sears Tower.”
“You reside there?”
“We do now,” Verlaine jumped in.
“I thought the upper floors of the building were Valkyrie territory?”
Rimbaud snickered.
“Not anymore,” Verlaine said.

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About the Author

Richard J. O’Brien is a graduate of the Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA in Creative Writing Program. Richard’s novels include Under the Bronze Moon, Infestation, and The Garden of Fragile Things. His short stories have appeared in The Del Sol Review, Duende, Pulp Literature, The Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review, Weirdbook, and other magazines. Richard lives in New Jersey, where he teaches at Rowan College at Gloucester County and Stockton University.

Website: https://obrienwriter.com/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18704140.Richard_J_O_Brien

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Richard-J.-OBrien/e/B0096UJEPW

Giveaway

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Tour Schedule

Jan 7th

Reads & Reels (Excerpt) http://www.readsandreels.com
Life at 17 (Review) https://lifeat17.wordpress.com/
Tranquil Dreams (Excerpt) https://klling.wordpress.com/
The Invisible Moth (Review) https://daleydowning.wordpress.com/

Jan. 8th

On the Shelf Book Reviews (Excerpt) https://ontheshelfreviews.wordpress.com
Jessica Rachow (Review) http://jessicarachow.wordpress.com
Your Books, My Reviews (Review) https://yourbooksmyreview.wordpress.com