The Cadaver Princess
In 1831 London, Pablo Mansong assists an anatomist, preparing cadavers for dissection. When a young girl’s corpse is brought in by body snatchers, she sits up on the slab and claims to be Princess Victoria, heir to the throne. She is in the body with the street beggar Charlotte Hill as a plot to keep Charlotte/Victoria under his thumb of her mother and her ambitious advisor John Conroy. There are dark forces, ancient wizards with agendas, demons, a talking bust of the poet Homer, resurrection men, sentient killer rats, and music that can drive people mad, all of which challenge Pablo as he tries to set things right.
Staroamer’s Fate
Quarnian Dow is a syron, driven by her intuition, anticipating the future and acting without knowing why — just that she has to. Often, she’s a hero. Sometimes, she’s a thief. Her talent takes her from planet to planet, buffeted by fate and never knowing what it will force her to do.
And now, her intuition is leading her to the legendary Staroamer, a generation ship that vanished centuries ago. But the Staroamer has secrets in its vast dark chambers, and they may have dangers that even a Syron’s abilities can’t overcome.
Praise for Staroamer’s Fate.
Worth passing on….Rothman brings to his novel a certain freshness and vigor which makes Staroamer’s Fate anything but hackneyed. Very little is dull here. — Dan Chow, Locus
Nothing profound, but fun. I liked it. — John Betancourt, Amazing Stories
One of the unique heroines to come along . . . This is the sort of action/adventure story that can be enjoyed on several levels, and by people who are not necessarily hard-core SF fans. Definitely a good read. — Roberta Rogow, Voya.
Syron ‘s Fate
Quarnian Dow is manipulated by fate, her intuition taking her from danger to danger, taking actions without ever knowing why and trusting that they will be the right thing. And when a mysterious woman makes her a target, it sends her off to a world with impossible gravity and human inhabitants where no humans ever inhabited. What sort of dark secrets does this world hold beneath its bucolic surface? Quarnian must get to the bottom of the conundrum to save herself and find her true destiny — and that of the human race.