Knight in Charlotte

by Edward McKeown

Charlotte, NC, isn’t just polished glass, towering office buildings, and bustling megachurches. Beneath the city’s shiny surface lurks something far darker—and far more dangerous: a breeding ground for supernatural evil.
Knight Templar Jeremy LeClerc and his long-suffering guardian angel, Shadowheart, face the Queen City’s most bizarre and deadly threats. Armed with his bloodsword and accompanied by his angelic sidekick, Jeremy battles lusty vampires, savage werewolves, a woman-jaguar, and other strange foes in a world where Kudzu and NASCAR hide horrors beyond imagination.

Genres: Vampires, Amazon, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Short Stories

294 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 2, 2013

About the author

Edward McKeown is best known for his two Confederation Space Series: The Robert Fenaday/Shasti Rainhell series of SF novels set on the Privateer Sidhe & set in the same universe, The Maauro Chronicles featuring a 50,000-year-old android named Maauro and her friend, a disgraced pilot named Wrik Trigardt, as they battle governments and the Thieves Guild for their freedom.


Fenaday/ Rainhell: Reluctant privateer Robert Fenaday searches the stars for his lost love, Lisa, a naval intelligence officer whose ship disappeared near the end of the Conchirri War. He’s joined by the genetically engineered assassin, Shasti Rainhell, whose cold perfection masks her dark past. Both are blackmailed by government spymaster, Mandela, into a suicidal mission to the doomed planet Enshar. Leading a team of scientists and soldiers, they must unravel the mystery of that planet’s death before an ancient force reaches out to claim their lives.


The Maauro Chronicles: “Three alien machines descend to the asteroid base of their enemies. The ensuing battle is short and savage. The lone survivor hopes either for rescue, or for another chance to engage its enemies. It will be a long wait…

Wrik Trigardt ekes out a living in the Kandalor system with his small ship, Sinner. He is caught between his failed past and a grim present in service to the local crimelord, Dusko. An expedition to the Rift Asteroids promises better days, but when the well of time is disturbed--no one can say what will surface.

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His forays into Fantasy and Horror include the urban fantasy series Knight in Charlotte. He is the editor of the Sha’Daa anthologies of tales of the Apocalypse.


Ed enjoys a wide variety of interests from ballroom dance to the martial arts. Find him on Facebook, www.copperdogpublishing.com and at http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B004NM9ZU2

Reviews

[Angie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. It was mostly because I live right outside of Charlotte NC and found it fun and interesting to read about places I know about or have been. I had a couple of laugh out loud moments, like when the renaissance festival was mentioned, and the Time Warner Cable thing. . .my husband works for them and the irate customer crack had me calling him to tell him about it.

I have to admit I was a little confused as to the way this was written, I had assumed I was reading a short story when I came to the first the end and thought I was reading something completely else when the story started up again. It didn't take me long to notice it was all part of one story, and it probably got me more because I'm sick and my brain is a little mushed up right now. Once I got over that, I kinda liked the way it was written. Like a bunch of stories all joined together to make something else.

I liked the supporting characters, Shadowheart being one of my favorites with Debbie a close second. It was a pretty neat concept, though it never really got in depth about the Templars and I would have liked to learn more about the order and how Jeremy came to be a part of it. Especially since he didn't quite believe in things the way you would expect him to.

Would I recommend this book? Yes, anyone from the Charlotte area will enjoy it for the same reasons I did, and if your not its a good story in its own right.

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[John Hundley · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this series of vignettes loosely tied together with a central cast of characters to be flat-out fun. From Hell, to Heaven and Faerie in between, I loved the fast-paced, irreverent style and by the end had fallen in love with many of the supernatural players, some of whom had developed some real depth in spite of themselves. And all against the backdrop of the sprawling Southern town-on-steroids that I, too, have a love/hate relationship with. With its vampire hookers and demon bankers, McKeown makes me proud to be a Charlottean. I highly recommend this book, and I'm hoping we'll see more of Jeremy LeClerc and Shadowheart in the future.

[Sarah McKnight · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun stories!

[Annette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book! The characters were very likeable and the local Charlotte scenery references were fun since I'm from the Charlotte area.