Conner "the Hammer" McVee has a score to settle and enough spare parts in her body to build a small car.
Tarent Powers destroyed her life but even her enhanced abilities and her job as a police agent couldn't get her close enough to the corporate mob boss to bring him down.
Now the key to his unraveling has fallen into her lap.
Can she do what's necessary to make him pay even if it means destroying the life of an innocent young woman?
Come along for a ride in this future that corporate take-overs, plague and automation have made. A world where everything from crime, to central government, to the police are run by the corporations, and where a "mad" cult has sprung up whose members want to remake the world using hand tools and good hard work.
"Action, attitude, sex, politics, and more attitude...Rosen has another winner!" -- Robe Gates, free-lance writer & editor of "Spectrum"
"Selina Rosen writes an action acventure with a heroine who is hard as nails, and just as sharp." -- Laura J. Undersood, author of Ard Magister and The Black Hunter
"[Rosen's] outdone even herself with Conner... McVee, a cyborg who is half-human, half-machine, and all woman." -- Garrett Peck, co-editor or Personal Demons and Tooth & Claw
About the Author
Selina Rosen lives in rural Arkansas with her partner, her parrot, Ricky, assorted fowl – both inside and out --, several milk goats, an undetermined number of barn cats and two dogs. Besides writing and taking care of the farm, she’s a gardener, carpenter, rock mason, electrician (NOT a plumber), Torah scholar and sword fighter. In her spare time she creates water gardens and builds furniture.
Selina’s work has appeared in several anthologies including Sword and Sorceress 16, and Such A Pretty Face. Her published novels include Queen of Denial, Chains of Freedom, Chains of Destruction, Fire & Ice, The Host, Fright Eater, Gang Approval, and a novella entitled The Boatman. She has three new novels scheduled to premier in May of the next three years: Recycled (sequel to Queen of Denial, 2003), Chains of Redemption (2004), and Strange Robby (2005).
Selina Rosen lives in rural Arkansas with her partner, her parrot, Ricky, assorted fish and fowl ' both inside and out, several milk goats, an undetermined number of barn cats and her dog, Spud. Besides writing, editing, and taking care of the farm, she's a gardener, carpenter, rock mason, electrician (NOT a plumber), Torah scholar and sword fighter. In her spare time she creates water gardens, builds furniture, and adds to her on-going creation of the 'Great Wall of Kibler.'
Selina's short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies including Sword and Sorceress 16, Such A Pretty Face, Distant Journeys, three of the MZB Fantasy Mags, Tooth and Claw, Turn the Other Chick, and the new Anthology At the End of the Universe, just to name a few. Her critically acclaimed story entitled "Ritual Evolution" appeared in the first of the new Thieves World anthologies, Turning Points, and her second TW story, 'Gathering Strength,' appeared in the new TW anthology, Enemies of Fortune. The Bubba Chronicles is a collection of her short fiction which features ' strangely enough ' bubbas.
Her novels include Queen of Denial, Recycled, Chains of Freedom, Chains of Destruction, The Host trilogy, Fire & Ice, Hammer Town, Reruns, and novellas entitled The Boatman and Material Things.
Her new novel, Strange Robby, is due out in July of 2006 from Meisha Merlin Publishing. This will be her first hard cover release. Bad Lands, a gonzo-mystery novel co-written with Laura J. Underwood, is due out from Five Star Mysteries in 2007.
In her capacity as owner and editor in chief of Yard Dog Press, Ms. Rosen has edited several anthologies, including the award-winning Bubbas of the Apocalypse, and The Four Bubbas of the Apocalypse: Flatulence, Halitosis, Incest and' Ned, and two collections of 'modern' fairy tales ' the Stoker-nominated Stories That Won't Make Your Parents Hurl and More Stories That Won't Make Your Parents Hurl.
She also owns and operates CASTLE FARMS, an ADGA goat farm with registered Nubian milk goats.
You can contact Selina through her personal website www.selinarosen.com, or just Email her at selinarosen@cox.net.
Conner "Hammer" McVee was a cop who had broken many bones and been shot so often that she was more machine than human. Hammer had a personal score to settle with Tarent Powers, the corporate mob boss, and was determined to bring him down. The problem was that she could never get close enough to him. Not until ...
Elantra was Tarent's only child and meant everything to him. When Hammer got hold of Elantra, and had everyone believing it was to "protect" the city girl, Tarent put a high bounty out. It never occurred to Tarent that Elantra might NOT WANT to be rescued.
**** Be warned, if you have any ugly feelings about people who are, let us say, ... not straight... then keep out of Hammer Town!
The story is set in the future where machines run most of the world. People seldom have to leave their homes if they do not wish to. A few towns are filled with "Constructionists" who live as people in OUR time (2003) do. To them, using a stove or washing dishes is barbaric! In Hammer's time though, nothing has changed crime-wise. There are still mob bosses, hoodlums, gangs, etc.
There are a few sub-plots running throughout the story to keep the action moving along too. You won't find yourself bored at all. Great story. ****
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Conner 'Hammer' McVee takes a pounding trying to bring down a crime lord, responsible for the death of her former lover, when she kidnaps his isolated daughter, from another crime lord that kidnapped her.
Conner unexpectedly falls for the naïve girl and then brings down the Hammer on the girl's father and anyone else that attempts to keep them apart.
Riveting action, captivating romance, and enthralling adventure that will nail you in place until you reach the end of the ride.
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