I'm please to announce the release of The Adventure of the Naked Guide by Cynthia Ward as the seventy-fourth volume in Aqueduct's Conversation Pieces series.It is available in both print and e-book editions on Aqueduct's website (www.aqueductpress.comhttp://www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-61976-179-7.php)..
The Adventure of the Naked Guide is the third novella in the author's Blood Thirsty Agent series.
The earth is hollow—a trackless primordial wilderness. It's also the new front in the Great War. Here, the British spy Lucy Harker—Dracula's daughter—must locate Britain's missing vampire slayer—her own mother. Then she's separated from her lover, the vampire spy Carmilla and captured by Germany's most brilliant scientist, the sinister Dr Krüger. Now, Agent Harker may discover her most dangerous opponents are on her own side.
Cynthia Ward’s Lucy Harker novellas give the modern reader an updated frolic through avant-garde genre fiction, a frolic frosted with a myriad of clever fandom-esque references sure to delight adventurous readers. (Read the whole review)
—Tangent Online, Michelle Ristuccia, February 14, 2020