The Cadaver Princess
THE DEAD DON’T STAY DEAD—ESPECIALLY ROYALTY.
London, 1830. The city teems with secrets, science, and shadows—and one of those shadows just opened her eyes on an anatomist’s slab.
She says her name is Victoria. She insists she’s a princess. But she’s missing her teeth, wrapped in a burial shroud, and undeniably… dead. Or was.
Thrown together with a streetwise orphan named Pablo, a skeptical doctor, and a tavern keeper with secrets of her own, this strange girl unravels a conspiracy that stretches from the slums of London to the halls of Kensington Palace. Someone is stealing bodies—not just for science, but for power. And someone else is playing a dangerous game with the soul of the British Empire.
Part gothic mystery, part alternate history, The Cadaver Princess is a gripping, witty, and darkly magical tale of resurrection, rebellion, and identity. If Mary Shelley and Terry Pratchett had collaborated on a Victorian version of THE PRINCESS BRIDE, with fewer weddings and more corpses, it might have looked something like this.
She’s not the girl they buried.
She’s not the girl they crowned.
She’s something else entirely.
“A dark mélange of fantasy, horror, and history, The Cadaver Princess is novel that hooked me on the first page. Like Dickens crossed with Poe, there isn’t anything else quite like it.” — Alan Steele, author of the Coyote and Captain Future books.
When the graverobbers of 1831 London deliver the very fresh corpse of a 12-year-old girl to the anatomist, and she promptly sits up to complain, it is clear that magic is involved. And when the unusually docile Princess Victoria does not recoil as usual from Sir John’s fondling—and he exclaims, “It worked!”—it is equally clear that vile plots are afoot. The ensuing tale is engrossing and satisfying. Recommended! — Tom Easton, coauthor, with Frank Wu, of ESPionage: Regime Change and, with Torion Oey, of Boondoggle.
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.