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Taste of Marrow


A Science Fiction Novel


Book 2 of the River of Teeth Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Alternate History,
  • Western,
  • Heist
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  • Outlaws wrangling feral hippos on a reimagined Mississippi
  • Crew dynamics fractured by disaster and haunted by their pasts
  • Songs and legends woven through aftermath and survival
Publisher Description

A few months ago, Winslow Houndstooth put together the damnedest crew of outlaws, assassins, cons, and saboteurs on either side of the Harriet for a history-changing caper.

Together they conspired to blow the dam that choked the Mississippi and funnel the hordes of feral hippos contained within downriver, to finally give America back its greatest waterway.

Songs are sung of their exploits, many with a haunting refrain: "And not a soul escaped alive." In the aftermath of the Harriet catastrophe, that crew has scattered to the winds.

Some hunt the missing lovers they refuse to believe have died. Others band together to protect a precious infant and a peaceful future.

All of them struggle with who they've become after a long life of theft, murder, deception, and general disinterest in the strictures of the law.

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