Anya Kalinczyk #1
Pocket Juno Books
Mass Market Paperback,
$7.99
ISBN: 978-1439167656
April 2010
“One of the most
promising debut novels I’ve read in a great while… I’d highly recommend this
book to anybody who reads fantasy. It reminds me in many regards…of another
exceptional first novel…Emma Bull’s seminal War for the Oaks, and there’s not
much higher praise that I can give.”
“Bickle has something
great in Anya. Embers has everything: demons, ghosts, dragons, love, sex,
police, and murder.”
—M.L.N. Hanover, bestselling author of Darker Angels
“Gritty but never grim,
Embers is a truly urban fantasy, where the soul of a city haunts every page. I
can’t wait for more of Anya and the unforgettable Sparky!”
—Jeri Smith-Ready, award-winning author of Bad to the Bone and Shade
Unemployment, despair,
anger--visible and invisible unrest feed the undercurrent of Detroit's unease.
A city increasingly invaded by phantoms now faces a malevolent force that
further stokes fear and chaos throughout the city.
Anya Kalinczyk spends
her days as an arson investigator with the Detroit Fire Department, and her nights
pursuing malicious spirits with a team of eccentric ghost hunters. Anya--who is
the rarest type of psychic medium, a Lantern--suspects a supernatural arsonist
is setting blazes to summon a fiery ancient entity that will leave the city in
cinders. By Devil's Night, the spell will be complete, unless Anya--with the
help of her salamander familiar and the paranormal investigating team --can
stop it.
Anya's accustomed to
danger and believes herself inured to loneliness and loss. But this time she's
risking everything: her city, her soul, and a man who sees and accepts her for
everything she is. Keeping all three safe will be the biggest challenge she's
ever faced.
SPARKS
Anya Kalinczyk #2
Pocket Juno Books
Mass Market Paperback,
$7.99
ISBN 978-1439167687
September 2010
The second book in
Bickle’s series about Anya Kalinczyk is just as wonderful as the first—Anya is
a compelling and likable protagonist and Bickle does an outstanding job in her
portrayal of the city of Detroit; there are ruins, yes, but also hope in the
ashes. Anya never takes herself too seriously and there is a scene in a baby
supercenter that is absolutely not to be missed. (4 stars)
- RT Book Reviews
...a charming and
inventive read.
-Elizabeth Bear, Realms of Fantasy Magazine, December 2010
WITHOUT A TRACE...
Anya Kalinczyk is the rarest type of psychic
medium, a Lantern, who holds down a day job as an arson investigator with the
Detroit Fire Department—while working 24/7 to exterminate malicious spirits
haunting a city plagued by unemployment and despair. Along with her inseparable
salamander familiar, Sparky, Anya has seen, and even survived, all manner of
fiery hell—but her newest case sparks suspicions of a bizarre phenomenon that
no one but her eccentric team of ghost hunters might believe: spontaneous human
combustion.
After fire consumes the
home of elderly Jasper Bernard, Anya is stunned to discover his remains—or,
more precisely, a lack of them; even the fiercest fires leave some trace of
their victims—and she is sure this was no naturally occurring blaze. Soon she’s
unearthed a connection to a celebrity psychic who preys on Detroit’s poor,
promising miracles for money. But Hope Solomon wants more—she’s collecting
spirits, and in a frantic race against time, Anya will face down an evil
adversary who threatens her fragile relationship with her lover, her beloved
Sparky’s freshly hatched newts, and the wandering souls of the entire city.
The covers are so COOL!
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