When a hunted portrait arrives at the priory for safekeeping, I make a disturbing discovery or two about my immortal neighbour. And an unwelcome one about myself.
As my resourceful family tries to figure out what’s so special about the painting, a sinister duke makes a bold move in his bid to claim it. But the painting is not the only thing he’s after.
Can we outwit the duke and bargain our way to victory? Or will we learn that we’re not the only ones with betrayal in mind?
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Of Blood and Oil is book 3 of Not the Same River, which follows Violet as she goes from gobby orphan to gobby warrior in this complete six-book series.
This book features a stray nephilim, judgemental goats, and a vampire who doesn’t know where his trousers are.
Inka York got an early start to her writing career when she rewrote the endings of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales to make them less sad, and while it wasn’t on quite the same level of fanfic written by the likes of William Shakespeare, Alexandre Dumas, Dante, or Oscar Wilde, it was something. The kind of something that grew its own bones and teeth, and took on a life of its own.
The Cascade Apocrypha storyworld was decades in the making, and begins with the Not the Same River series, about a girl who finds the family she deserves in a world she never knew existed.
Inka writes from a cave in Kent, in the southeast of England, where she lives with her husband and the gaping chasm left behind when Kid A and Kid B flew away to find their own caves.