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Knowledge Aforethought
A Paranormal / Urban Fantasy Novella by Evelyn Grimald Stone
Book 2 of the On Behalf of Death Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Time Travel Fantasy,
- Renaissance Italy,
- Historical Fantasy
This book is for you if you're into...
- Philosophical matchmaking between personified Life, Death, and Time
- Time travel hijinks in Renaissance Florence with Machiavelli cameos
- Snarky narrators stuck fixing cosmic relationships to get home
Acting as relationship counselor for Life and Death was not in my job description. Then, I got sent back in time to fix the problems before their relationship fractured apart…My name is Cal Thorpe, and I work for Death as his marketing agent. Mediating between Death and Life's marriage was never in my job description. I did my best until we met up with Death's cousin, Time, at the theatre. Time decided I should try and fix the problems between Life and Death before they started, so he sent me backwards.
I ended up in Florence in 1494, right in the middle of the Renaissance. And one of the first people I met while there? Niccolo Machiavelli. Add in a half-giantess named Charlotte, her time travelling journalist companion, and the fact that Death lost my soul and nothing about that trip began as I expected. Still, I had a job to do, and if I ever wanted to get back to the future, I needed to fix the problem before it even started.
Things, naturally, went downhill from there.
with Evelyn Grimald Stone “ My characters tend to not fit the standard protagonist mould; they're not the strongest, the most powerful, the loudest. They have their own problems to deal with and end up in the middle of things because they want to help people, or by mere accident. ”
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