Shadow Runner
by K.J. Fieler
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Pub Date Jun 01 2023 | Archive Date Jul 30 2023
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Description
"Adventurous, clever, unique, and compelling. Shadow Runner weaves a fantastic tale that will leave you enchanted, entertained, and eager for more." –Tara C. Allred, award-winning author of The Other Side of Quiet
Born to aristocracy, Ada will marry and never want for anything… except freedom. She yearns for adventure, lives for her chess games with Papa, and is captivated by family stories of Grandmama's escapades in America. However, when a much-anticipated male heir is finally born, she'll lose everything, and spend the rest of her life tatting lace and having tea with lady friends.
A ghostly visitor and a series of seemingly supernatural events unexpectedly delivers Ada from the mundane—but no one could have predicted the darkness that comes with it. Taken in and raised by a secret society, she's forced to abandon her own moral compass when she is required to lie and steal—and is groomed as an assassin.
As Ada comes of age, she must uphold the mantle of her mistress and become a predator, targeting members of the very nobility to which she was born. The only other choice is to leave the organization as a fugitive. And if she leaves, she must forsake the two people she loves more than herself: her captor and her adopted sister, both of whom will almost certainly be slain as punishment for her disloyalty.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
"Fieler pits British Victorian propriety against a dark secret society, blending steampunk flash with nighttime terrors in this riveting, genre-melding fantasy. An adult Coraline on steroids, highly recommended!" -Lenore Hart, Shirley Jackson Award finalist, author of The Night Bazaar Venice and The Raven's Bride
"Adventurous, clever, unique, and compelling. Shadow Runner weaves a fantastic tale that will leave you enchanted, entertained, and eager for more." -Tara C. Allred, award-winning author of The Other Side of Quiet
". . . a chess game of a novel, set in a steampunk world balanced between the white squares of a familiar Victorian world and the black squares of techno-fantasy. Bravo!" -Samuel Peralta, Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestseller and creator of The Future Chronicles
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781685132040 |
| PRICE | $5.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 277 |
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Featured Reviews
Kathryn M, Reviewer
This was a great supernatural element to it, it does a great job in creating a world that I wanted to read about and that it was a great read to it. I enjoyed getting to know the characters and thought it worked well overall. K.J. Fieler has a great writing style and I can’t wait to read more.
Chelsea H, Reviewer
Trigger warning Child abuse.
A 19th century steampunk concept. Love the mechanical horses and dragonfly's. Took a bit for me to grasp the shadow society and understand what exactly they were doing but i got it. I admire Lady Fiona Constance and hope to see more of her. I do not have any info on if this is first in a series or a standalone, it could potentially end here but is open to more.
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