Bloody Foundations: A Grace and Poppy Adventure [Hardcover]

Grady J. Gratt (Author)

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Publication Date: November 17, 2009

In a world where magic is real and monsters lurk in the shadows, the only hope people have for saviors are a pair of janitors. They're not too pleased about it either, but they have experience in cleaning up messes. Grace West: A general all around disappointment to her family, now making ends meet with a combination of crime scene cleaning and house flipping. She is as surprised as anyone to be making money from this unhealthy combination. Winterdawn "Poppy" Strongwill: A former child hero in the Fantastical world and now a full-time burnout, trying to live off the magical grid. Making do with a police station janitor job by day and reality TV shows with take-out food at night. Unfortunately for our reluctant heroes the Fantastical World is a mess. Mythical monsters are running amuck, amoral wizards are experimenting on innocents, and one of the worst kinds of trouble is about to crash into their quiet little worlds. Emma is a golem, an unstoppable monster made of clay. For an extra kick the fiend that made her used clay created with the ashes taken from the ovens of Dachau. Emma's set on a "holy" mission, to reclaim artifacts stolen from the victims of the Holocaust camps. Unfortunately she does this by killing everyone and anyone in her way, regardless of innocence, and in the most brutal ways possible. Grace and Poppy are drawn into Emma's orbit by grisly murders of close friends. Knowing that they are the only ones who have a chance of stopping the monster, Grace and Poppy need to face their own demons and become the heroes that this world desperately needs. And they better do it fast, because Emma does not stop, she does not forgive, and every second she's getting closer...

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About the Author

Grady J. Gratt was born in Los Angeles. Later he moved to Mercer Island, Washington with his family. He then went on to graduate from Western Washington University, majoring in communications. After college he spent his working life trapped in boring call centers working tech support. Desperate to leave that world, Grady chose to make his passion for writing into a career. Grady writes constantly and continually, on any subject that catches his interest, with a focus toward Urban Fantasy. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 236 pages
• Publisher: AuthorHouse (November 17, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1449033873
• ISBN-13: 978-1449033873
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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4.0 out of 5 stars If you're tired of wizards and vampires..., December 21, 2009

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Eclectic Reader (Duvall, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bloody Foundations: A Grace and Poppy Adventure (Paperback)

If you're tired of wizards and vampires, try this book. It has magic, but not like Harry Potter. It has a "monster" but no vampires. So what DOES it have? Grace, who cleans houses where murders/suicides/etc. have happened and then sells them and Poppy (real name Winterdawn Oakblade Strongwill), the son of magic users who lived to "save the world." Poppy didn't like that life and has been "clean" for three years until he and Grace meet unexpectedly to combat the same enemy -- a golem. If you don't already know, I'm not telling you what a golem is. But Gratt supplies the background information we need. It's really refreshing after all the vampires and wizards. Poppy isn't a wizard, he's a Magic User and he doesn't carry a wand; he's the janitor at the police station. After he and Grace defeat the golem (but you KNEW they would, didn't you?) he begins to think that maybe he should go back to using magic, just not like his parents did, you know, keep control, continue to live his normal life.... With the title Bloody Foundations (as in buildings AND partnerships) and with Poppy thinking that he might do some magic using again, I expect to see a series based on the Grace and Poppy team. I understand that Gratt's second book isn't a sequel. I sure hope he decides to turn Grace and Poppy into a series. They're fun people with great adventures!