For 26 years, Cate has only traveled forward collecting bounties across the barren, infinite Sleeping Land. Though the ever-worsening pain in her knees tries to persuade her to do otherwise, she cannot backtrack or remain in one town for too long. If she does, They might finally catch her.
It helps that she’s good at her job: armed with a revolver, a pouch full of riches, and a gold eye that shows her events yet to come, bounty hunting for her is easy. If only she could as easily remember who They are, where her riches came from, and how the hell she got into this business.
When a new kind of outlaw—Kom the Facecutter, who kills for no apparent reason by mutilating his victims’ faces—blinds Cate’s gold eye with the graze of a bullet, she is left with nothing but hunger for revenge and her eye’s final guiding vision. Traveling backwards to kill Kom will risk Them finally catching her, but at the age of 48, perhaps it’s time she tries to put Them behind her anyway.
As Kom evades her at every turn, and an inevitable confrontation with Them inches closer, she uncovers pieces of the game she’s been unknowingly playing her whole life, rooted in a monster that threatens the world at large and hides in plain sight—all whilst taking her aging body to the brink of its physical limits.
Complete at 110,000 words, WHEN SHE LAST SAW THE STIL is a sci-fi/fantasy epic with touches of horror and spaghetti western. This novel will appeal to fans of Charlie N. Holmberg’s STAR MOTHER and Yasmin Angoe’s HER NAME IS KNIGHT for its magical mysteries and the protagonist’s struggle to grapple with traumatic memories.
It helps that she’s good at her job: armed with a revolver, a pouch full of riches, and a gold eye that shows her events yet to come, bounty hunting for her is easy. If only she could as easily remember who They are, where her riches came from, and how the hell she got into this business.
When a new kind of outlaw—Kom the Facecutter, who kills for no apparent reason by mutilating his victims’ faces—blinds Cate’s gold eye with the graze of a bullet, she is left with nothing but hunger for revenge and her eye’s final guiding vision. Traveling backwards to kill Kom will risk Them finally catching her, but at the age of 48, perhaps it’s time she tries to put Them behind her anyway.
As Kom evades her at every turn, and an inevitable confrontation with Them inches closer, she uncovers pieces of the game she’s been unknowingly playing her whole life, rooted in a monster that threatens the world at large and hides in plain sight—all whilst taking her aging body to the brink of its physical limits.
Complete at 110,000 words, WHEN SHE LAST SAW THE STIL is a sci-fi/fantasy epic with touches of horror and spaghetti western. This novel will appeal to fans of Charlie N. Holmberg’s STAR MOTHER and Yasmin Angoe’s HER NAME IS KNIGHT for its magical mysteries and the protagonist’s struggle to grapple with traumatic memories.
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