The Travelling City
by Adrienne Miller
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GENRE: Fantasy
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BLURB:
After a hundred years of watching humans make bad
decisions, anyone would be sick of their job as peacekeeper.
Reihan, a seaver created to deal with humans who
lose control over their manifestation abilities, is no exception.
Worse still, virtually all humans in the Travelling
City can manifest.
That is, shape reality according to their more or
less well-formed and often poorly thought-out designs.
That alone would be enough to keep her busy, but
then there are people like Phillippe.
Phillippe, who drenched himself in the city’s
collective subconscious to strengthen his inborn powers.
Even though he shouldn’t be, he seems fine, crowned
as the new star escort in the Brothel of Transformative Curiosities.
But Reihan has seen this story play out before. And
Phillippe is far too charming, far too kind, and far too inconsolable for her
to simply look away.
The Travelling City is a dark fantasy mystery packed
with romance and even more existential dread; set in a whimsical, bizarre and
ever-changing world.
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Excerpt
Two:
“Why would you say that to me?”
Phillippe’s voice was still shrill, but it assumed a layer
of calm that Reihan found unusual. His eyes fixated on her, almost as if he was
intrigued by the callousness lurking behind her words.
“Because I didn’t cause this, Phillippe. Because I was
created to solve a problem that you humans could so easily avoid if not for
your petulant greed and insistence on breaking every rule, no matter how
well-meaning.”
“We had no choice”, Phillippe replied, still with that
eerily resigned tone of his.
“I don’t believe that. All you people can manifest at least
to a degree. You’ll never truly go hungry, and you’ll never truly go cold.
Hells, if you get sick, you can make yourselves healthy, and when you get old,
you can make yourselves young, at least for a little while. Everything else is
a choice.”
“You don’t know – you wouldn’t understand.”
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Adrienne Miller writes in the genre of Dark Fantasy; combining
beautiful aesthetics with existential dread. Her stories feature complex
romances, found family dynamics, and storylines centred on world mysteries.
She has grown up with both classic and new Fantasy, from Michael
Moorcok's Eternal Hero series, Michael's Scott's "Thraxas" magical
detective romps, to quiet and heart-felt Science-Fantasy by Becky Chambers.
The Travelling City is inspired by her love for the imaginative
worlds of old-school role-playing games like Planescape Torment and the
intricate character work of urban fantasy authors like Holly Black.
Website: https://adriennemillerauth.wixsite.com/adrienne-miller-book
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Purchase Links:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Travelling-City-Book-ebook/dp/B0BYZW93FS/
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-City-Book-ebook/dp/B0BYZW93FS/r
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