Chessa Moon and Gwendolyn Evenshine started C&F Investigations with a clear pursue justice for the countless fae who’d been let down by the system. Unfortunately, the lines of succession and a botched insurrection tore Gwen away, leaving Chessa to press on without her partner. With help from Norman, a rehabilitated criminal wizard, and Cross-Eyed Quincy, a disreputable half-ogre, C&F scrounges for business, crippled by its connection to the Seelie Throne. Until Xander Aster is pushed through the front door. Xander’s brother Mandrake was murdered, and the teenaged pixie doesn’t believe the story the cops are selling. When the case leads to Avalon, the seat of Seelie power, Chessa must determine who is trustworthy before the magic inside consumes her and a new evil is let loose upon the world.
Sarah J. Sover is the author of fantasy crossover novels, short stories, and nonfiction articles. Sarah writes the Urban Fantasy Fractured Fae Series for Falstaff Books. Her comedic fantasy Double-Crossing the Bridge, about a group of drunk trolls pulling a perilous heist, originally released in 2019 and was re-released by Falstaff in 2022 with a sequel, Trolled, slated for 2024/2025. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies, and she’s written articles for Writer’s Digest Magazine, WritersDigest.com, and for Dan Koboldt’s Putting the Fact in Fantasy.
Sarah has a degree in Biology and a background in animal care, which she uses to thoroughly gross out readers. She spends her time raising two little forces of nature with her husband Alex in John’s Creek, Ga. In addition to writing, Sarah enjoys binging all SFF media, blues dancing, painting, and pretending to play guitar. She can frequently be found pillaging Hades or Hyrule while sipping on a good IPA and pinned beneath her rescue pup Gandalf the Grey.