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The Golden City
The Golden City
The Golden City
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Tadala has lost everything: her village, her mother, her father, and now her adopted home. In the wake of his wife's death, her foster father Hakim has decided to leave everything behind them and trek deep into the desert. Tadala isn't optimistic about the life that waits for her at a small oasis, but it's the only option she has left.

When a deadly sandstorm blows up and threatens their caravan, Tadala must make a split-second decision to save herself and Hakim's two young daughters: shelter with the rest of the travelers, or flee toward a mysterious smudge on the horizon. The mysterious smudge is a city, and in the city is a single person.

Elabel is unlike anyone Tadala has ever met, and wields a bizarre power stronger than anything she could have imagined. But Elabel is facing other threats, and in her struggle to survive she pulls Tadala into a peculiar world of mechanical horses, floating cities, and threads.

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Release dateDec 12, 2017
ISBN9781370468027
The Golden City
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Sharon J. Gochenour

Sharon J. Gochenour is a writer and illustrator who has been many places and done many things. She has previously had stories published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (read a review of that story, “Debtors,” here) and Betwixt magazine of fantasy and science fiction (the story “The Book of the Lost” can be read in full here.) She has also written for the cultural criticism site Role Reboot, the lifestyle website xoJane, and the urbanism website This Big City. Her short story blog, featuring fiction both flash and otherwise and illustrations, can be found at High Flying Poultry. Her illustration, paintings, and linocuts are available for sale on her Society6 page. She did the cover art for V. Wetlaufer’s 2016 book of poetry Call Me By My Other Name. She has written a fantasy novel, The Golden City, which will be released on December 12, 2017 on Amazon and other platforms. She is hard at work on the second book in the series, The Golden Empress.

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