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In Her Exquisite Clutches

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Pub Date Mar 2 2027 | Archive Date Not set


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Description

An art-collecting dragon and a reformed delinquent team up to solve a seemingly unsolvable museum heist. Will they crack the case, recover the paintings, and make a tidy profit? In this delightful new mystery, the most infamous art theft in Boston history is recast with both human and supernatural players.

Every dragon needs a man on the inside.

Angharad Stoneweaver is a dragon with exquisite taste and the finest reputation in the art world for recovering lost masterpieces. What she lacks is the ability to fit through a doorway.

Ex-lowlife Sam Braun has landed the job as Stoneweaver’s right-claw man, working as her eyes and ears on the ground. Sam’s pay is good, the perks are better, and he has no regrets about trading the gutter for the good life.

But when the mobster (and friend of Sam’s late father) Carmine Delucci turns up dead, Stoneweaver’s latest investigation hits a little too close to home. Everyone knows Delucci was behind the largest heist in American history, but nobody knows what happened to the stolen paintings.

For Stoneweaver, it’s a mystery she cannot resist. For Sam, it’s an unraveling of his father’s seedy past, and a possible answer to an impossible question: What, exactly, is the power of art?

An art-collecting dragon and a reformed delinquent team up to solve a seemingly unsolvable museum heist. Will they crack the case, recover the paintings, and make a tidy profit? In this delightful...


A Note From the Publisher

Auston Habershaw is the acclaimed author of the Saga of the Redeemed (Harper Voyager Impulse). He is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest and a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. Habershaw has published multiple science fiction and fantasy short stories in Analog, Galaxy’s Edge, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Escape Pod, among other places. Habershaw has worked as a lifeguard, barista, waiter, QA tester, dog walker, hotel bellhop, pedicab driver, SAT tutor, office drone, and a bunch of other random things. He currently teaches composition and literature at MCPHS University in Boston, Massachusetts. You can find him online at aahabershaw.com

Auston Habershaw is the acclaimed author of the Saga of the Redeemed (Harper Voyager Impulse). He is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest and a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy...


Advance Praise

Praise for Auston Habershaw

On If Wishes Were Retail

“Irresistibly fun and funny, with a ton of heart and depth! This is the kind of book that sneaks up on you and sticks with you!”
—Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop

“Delightfully charming!”
—Phil Foglio, cocreator of Girl Genius

“Habershaw keeps up the lighthearted, humorous tone. It’s a cozy, comical confection.”
Publishers Weekly

“My three wishes? Three more books as good as this one from Auston Habershaw.”
—Tom Holt, author of The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse

“A ten out of ten gnomes—if you can see them, that is.”
—Mia Tsai, author of Bitter Medicine

“I wish I’d thought of this.”
—Daniel Pinkwater, author of Jules, Penny & the Rooster

“A love letter to wounded people and community spaces, this suburban fantasy is both delightfully absurd and firmly grounded.”
—Dave Klecha, coauthor of The Runes of Engagement

Praise for Auston Habershaw

On If Wishes Were Retail

“Irresistibly fun and funny, with a ton of heart and depth! This is the kind of book that sneaks up on you and sticks with you!”
—Sarah Beth Durst...


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  • Author tour to include Massachusetts, New York, and national appearances and radio features
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Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781616964733
PRICE $18.95 (USD)
PAGES 304

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BISAC Codes

FIC009060 FICTION / Fantasy / Urban