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The Quick and the Dead
A Historical Fiction Novel by Emma Hinds
Subgenres:
- Tudor England,
- LGBTQ+ Historical Fiction,
- Friendship Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Queer historical fiction with gender nonconforming leads
- Alchemy-fueled crime capers in shadowy Tudor London
- Friendship bonds tested by dangerous schemes and shifting alliances
From Little Stack
This story is a bit different from the others, as it isn’t a romantic relationship that helps the protagonist overcome hate, but the love of a friend.
The year is 1597 and criminal Mariner Elgin is trying to save her friend and partner in crime, Kit Skevy, who was kidnapped while they robbed a grave for their owner. Mariner isn’t like other women of her era; she doesn’t feel like a woman, is more comfortable in men’s clothes and is attracted to women. She faces prejudice and ridicule, but Kit is unwavering in his support of her, accepting Mariner for who she is when others want her to conform.
It is 1597 and Kit Skevy and Mariner Elgin have just robbed the wrong grave. They are young criminals in the pocket of a gang Lord named Will Twentyman, the Grave Eorl of Southwark.
Mariner is the best cutpurse around, a strange Calvinist girl who dresses like a boy and is partner in crime to Kit Skevy, Southwark's best brawler who carries a he cannot feel pain.
When caught out in their unfortunate larceny, Kit is kidnapped by the menacing alchemist Lord Isherwood (a man who will stop at nothing to achieve his hopes for the Red Lion elixir) and his studious son, Lazarus Isherwood, with whom Kit develops a complicated intrigue.
When Mariner enlists the help of a competing French alchemist, Lady Elody Blackwater, Mariner and Kit are thrust into the shadowed, political world of Tudor alchemy, testing both their friendship and their lives.
It matters not who you are born to... but where you are made!
with Emma Hinds “ I think the battle of every author's life is to write entirely as themselves. ”
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