On November 1, 2016, National Book Award nominee and New York Times bestselling author Andra Watkins releases Hard to Die [Word Hermit Press], an engrossing speculative fiction novel that provides a new take on the uncharted fate of Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of Alexander Hamilton’s murderer.

Theodosia is known to have disappeared at sea on her way to New York and, to this day, her destiny remains a mystery. In Hard to Die, she reappears 150 years later during the early days of the Cold War in New York City. Stuck in an in-between, timeless place called “Nowhere” – where people whose deaths are unresolved find themselves resurrected under the guidance of a “Nowhere” steward – Theodosia is presented with an assignment: she must help a living soul navigate a life-changing crossroad. If she fails in her assignment, she is to be doomed to a fate worse than death – erased from history’s timeline, forgott

Meanwhile, a young man named Richard Cox thought he could walk away from life as a spy in post-WWII Germany and begin again as a West Point cadet. He was wrong. His former commander, George, finds him, and presents him with an impossible ultimatum: remain a spy… or die.

In a darkened train station, Theodosia and Richard collide and become immersed in a world where no one is as they appear. As they fight their attraction to each other, they must learn to trust each other – or become pawns for a bigger foe determined to see them fail.