The Girl on the Kerb is Finally Available!
My 2023 full length novel, The Girl on the Kerb, is now available! Get your copy in the your preferred format today at the following online bookshops!
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Amazon ebook version will be released on 6 April 2023 Here It can be pre-ordered now for $3.99 Amazon requires a non-zero price. They may reduce the price to match the other stores at some point. Or not. It is up to them.
Apple, Kobo, and B & N ebook versions will become available within this next week once the book clears Smashwords premium process. All these versions will also be FREE.
The Girl on the Kerb
"Thered 8:25 tram crossed Crane House Lane and disappeared behindVilliers House, sealing my fate. I’d be late for work. I slowed toa walk and took another bite of toast. I found I didn’t care. Itwas that kind of day."
– HenriHardy, The Girl on the Kerb
Ittook several months for Henri Hardy to discover just what type of dayit really was. It was more than a day when his alarm clock failed toring. It was more than an unusually mild day in early spring. It wasa prelude to undreamed of changes in his life as an analyticalengineer in the Ministry of Innovation. It was a prelude to travel,adventure, danger, and romance.
Fifteenhundred years before that day, a devastating plague swept across theplanets, moons, and space ships of Earth’s solar system spanningcivilization. It ended space travel and forced the survivingpopulation of the resource depleted Earth to live at a near 20thcentury level of technology, while endlessly recycling theremains of their once highly advanced civilization. To that end,every aspect of their society is governed by an elaborate set of lawsknown as the Code.
Butnot everyone is content to live at the reduced level of technologydictated by the Code. There are those who dream of returning to spaceand the planets. Once such person is the administrator of Europe’sEuraEast region, the Duchess of Fauconcourt. She has made it clearthat she intends to alter the Code, one way or another, much to thealarm of the neighboring regions’ administrators. So when anillegal flying machine that crashes in EuraEast comes to theattention of the administrators of EuraCentre and EuraNorthwest, theyrecruit two amateur agents. One being Henri Hardy, the other isJeanne Murat, an expert in EuraEast. Together they set out as a teamfor EuraEast seeking the evidence needed to compel the WorldGovernment to preemptively act to foil the Duchess’ dangerousambitions. Murat and Hardy soon discover that not only had theirgovernments selected them as a team, fate had as well.
Nevertheless,their mission to EuraEast goes south almost immediately, propellingthem into one perilous situation after another, even as they seek touncover the Duchess’ secret plans.
TheGirl on the Kerb isa new full length novel from the pen of C. Litka. It blends a farfuture world with a nostalgic past in an espionage novel filled withintrigue, adventure, and romance, told in his classic lightheartedstyle. Like all his novels, it features engaging characters, wittydialog, meticulous world-building, and mysteries to be solved inunexpected ways.
C.Litka’s novella Keiree is set on Mars after this same plagueand in this same time period, so that The Girl on the Kerb canbe read, not as a sequel, but as a companion piece to that story,answering the question of what happened on Earth. And vice versa.
