"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
Dark Alchemy by Laura Bickle
Kindle Edition
Expected publication: March 24th 2015 by Harper Voyager Impulse
Some secrets are better left buried …
Geologist Petra Dee arrives in Wyoming seeking clues to her father's disappearance years ago. What she finds instead is Temperance, a dying western town with a gold rush past and a meth-infested present. But under the dust and quiet, an old power is shifting. When bodies start turning up—desiccated and twisted skeletons that Petra can't scientifically explain—her investigations land her in the middle of a covert war between the town's most powerful interests. Petra's father wasn't the only one searching for the alchemical secrets of Temperance, and those still looking are now ready to kill. Armed with nothing but shaky alliances, a pair of antique guns, and a relic she doesn't understand, the only thing Petra knows for sure is that she and her coyote sidekick are going to have to move fast—or die next.
While I don't read a lot of urban fantasy, I jumped at the chance to join Laura's book review tour when I saw the tagline being attached to the novel - "Stephen King's The Gunslinger meets Breaking Bad." Seriously, Roland Deschain meets Walter White? How the hell could I not read this after being told that!
© 2015 Beauty in Ruins All Rights Reserved
