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NIGHTWATCH ON THE HINTERLANDS

K. Eason

The Weep Book 1

THE TEMPLAR: When Lieutenant Iari hears screams in the night, she expects to interrupt a robbery or break up a fight. Instead she discovers a murder with an impossible suspect: a riev, one of the battle-mecha decommissioned after the end of the last conflict, repurposed for manual labor. Riev don't kill people. And yet, clearly, one has. Iari sets out to find it.

THE SPY: Officially, Gaer is an ambassador from the vakari. Unofficially, he's also a spy, sending information back to his government, unfiltered by diplomatic channels. Unlike Iari, Gaer isn't so sure the riev's behavior is just a malfunction, since the riev were created using an unstable mixture of alchemy and arithmancy.

As Gaer and Iari search for the truth, they discover that the murderous riev is just a weapon in the hands of a wielder with wider ambitions than homicide--including releasing horrors not seen since the war, that make a rampaging riev seem insignificant...

K. Eason is a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine. Her previous publications include the Thorne Chronicles, On the Bones of Gods fantasy novels, and she has had short fiction published in Cabinet-des-Fe´es, Jabberwocky 4, Crossed Genres, and Kaleidotrope.
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Published 2021-10-01 by Daw Books

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NIGHTWATCH ON THE HINTERLANDS has been selected as a "Best Science Fiction Book of 2021" by Books, Bones, & Buffy. Additionally, it was featured in a variety of “Most Anticipated” lists, including Tor.com, Den of Geek, Nerd Daily, SFF Book Reviews, Book Riot, and more.

"Readers seeking a genre-blending tale will enjoy Eason's no-nonsense tone as she sets the plot of a thriller within her established world of science fiction and fantasy."