To paraphrase the old Martha Reeves and the Vandellas’ song, summer’s here and the time is right—for StarWarp Concepts’ first release of 2019!
Coming July 9, 2019—one week from today!—is Chasing Danger: The Case Files of Theron Chase, a collection of four noirish adventures by Richard C. White, author of Gauntlet: Dark Legacy: Paths of Evil and a growing backlist of SWC titles: the writer’s guide Terra Incognito: A Guide to Building the Worlds of Your Imagination; the fantasy-adventure novel Harbinger of Darkness; the fantasy collection For a Few Gold Pieces More; the pirate-fantasy digital comic The Chronicles of the Sea Dragon; and the superhero graphic novel Troubleshooters, Incorporated: Night Stalkings.
With Chasing Danger, think Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe mixed with Lev Grossman’s The Magicians. Here’s the back cover copy:
Calasia: it’s a big town with big problems. Murder, thievery, extortion, corruption, magic, and monsters—just ask any native here: this ain’t a burg for the faint of heart. You don’t live in Calasia, you survive it.
Theron Chase walks these mean streets with a sap in one hand and a .45 in the other. Story is he used to be a hell of a cop in these parts—until his partner got dead in a hurry years ago. Now he makes a living as a private eye, offering his services to one and all while trying to stay on the good side of his secretary, a dishy-looking fae name of Kyra Sylvari. Ogres, werewolves, crime bosses, mages—as long as your money’s good and no one’s looking to turn him into a dead man (walking or otherwise), odds are he’ll be able to solve your problem.
Just don’t ask him to handle any magic-related items—he’s about as adept with the arcane arts as a troll in a knitting circle.
In this collection you’ll find four of Chase’s bizarre cases. From a sexy chanteuse who literally turns into a beast when the moon is full to a string of pearls that kills its owners, and from the ghost of a dead woman seeking justice to the Grim Reaper’s little girl seeking her stolen chicken, Theron Chase certainly has his hands full—of danger, death, and dames!
Chasing Danger: The Case Files of Theron Chase goes on sale July 9, 2019, but in the meantime you can preorder it right now from Barnes and Noble.
