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Black Swan Rising By Lee Carroll
Advance Praise for Black Swan Rising
“The writing is creamy smooth. Clever and assured, with an authentic NYC setting.”
--Kirkus Reviews for Black Swan Rising
"Writing under the pseudonym Lee Carroll, Carol Goodman (Arcadia Falls; The Night Villa) and her husband, poet Lee Slonimsky, launch an urban fantasy series with an unusual heroine. Fans of Charles deLint and Mercedes Lackey should enjoy this vibrant addition to the urban fantasy genre."
--Library Journal on Black Swan Rising
“In Black Swan Rising Lee Carroll creates an unsuspected Manhattan touched by magic, and reinvents the epic quest in a startling contemporary way. It’s Pandora’s Box turned cybernetic!”
--Eric Ormsby
The first in a new urban fantasy trilogy, BLACK SWAN RISING (A Tor Trade Paperback Original; August 3, 2010; $14.99) by Lee Carroll tells the journey of the last in a long line of women sworn to protect the world from evil, who must fight the rising forces of darkness on the streets of New York City.
When New York City jewelry designer Garet James stumbles into a strange antiques shop in her neighborhood, John Dee, the enigmatic shopkeeper, commissions her to open a vintage silver box for a generous sum of money. Oddly, the symbol of a swan on the box exactly
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matches the ring given to her by her deceased mother. Garet can’t believe her luck and this eerie coincidence and decides to take the box home to open it up with a welding torch. However, whatever the box contains immediately goes up in smoke once she opens it. The only thing that remains is a piece of paper with the name Will Hughes on it.
That evening, thieves break into the house, steal the precious silver box and shoot Garet’s father during the burglary. Wounded but still alive, her father whispers that the thieves were actually demons. As Garet begins to investigate, she learns that she has been pulled into a prophecy that is hundreds of years old, and opening the box has unleashed an evil force onto the streets of Manhattan and the world at large. Gradually, Garet pieces together her true identity—one that her deceased mother desperately tried to protect her from. Generations of women in Garet’s family, including her beloved mother, suffered and died at the hands of this prevailing evil.
On her journey to reclaim the box and defeat this devastating force, Garet meets the fey folk who walk unnoticed among humans and the mysterious Will Hughes, a hedge fund manager who also happens to be a sexy vampire that she can’t stop thinking about. But the fairies reveal a desire to overpower mere humans and the seductive vampire has the power to steal the life from her body. Whom can Garet trust to guide her? Using her newfound powers and sharp wit, Garet will muster everything she’s got to shut down the evil taking over her friends, family, New York City, and the world.
Filled with intrigue, romance and adventure, BLACK SWAN RISING is a captivating, elegant page-turner that will appeal to all.
AUTHOR BIO
LEE CARROLL is a collaboration between Hammett Award winning mystery novelist Carol Goodman and her poet and hedge fund manager husband, Lee Slonimsky. Carol and Lee live in Great Neck, New York.
BLACK SWAN RISING For more information, contact:
By Lee Carroll Aisha Cloud—Publicist
A Tor Trade Paperback Original T: 646-307-5408
0-7653-2597-7 ISBN: 978-0-7653-2597-6 F: 212-982-2862
$14.99/400 pages aisha.cloud@tor.com
Publication date: August 3, 2010 www.tor-forge.com
