![]() ![]() She has also edited several anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows (a.k.a. She got her bachelor’s in communications from Endicott College in Massachusetts before she went back to Mexico. Born in Baja California, she grew up in Mexico and several places around the US since her parents worked on radio. Agent: Eddie Schneider, JABberwocky Agency. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of the novels The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Velvet Was the Night, Mexican Gothic, and many other books. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a Canadian short story author, novelist, publisher and editor. The steep price tag marks this as being for the devoted Moreno-Garcia fan, but Yalxi’s rage and ambition are sure to entrance any fantasy reader fond of antiheroines. This well-plotted novella zips along with the darkly fascinating Yalxi at the helm. ![]() Along the way, Yalxi must make deals with those she has wronged in her ascent to the top and confront a past she has long repressed. After bargaining with the nahual to heal her wounds, the pair set out to regain the diamond, which is tainted with the essence of Yalxi and Xellah’s former master, Teotah, and will consume Xellah if he continues to use it. She escapes and seeks out a nahual, a magic spirit that can take the form of an animal and must drink blood to perform magic. ![]() After Yalxi’s childhood friend turned lover, Xellah, steals the Diamond Heart that powers her magic, Yalxi is ousted as Master of the Guild of sorcerers and imprisoned. Bestseller Moreno-Garcia ( Mexican Gothic) packs an impressive plot into limited space in this dark sword-and-sorcery secondary world fantasy. ![]()
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