Empty House

By Kitty Chandler

As the country recovers from the recent war, a growing resentment against non-humans threatens the livelihood of Darren and his Hellhound friends. On a weekend trip home to see his family, one good deed turns that resentment into a threat against his children's lives

New Amsterdam came to life when the first colonists washed up on the beach and called themselves a community. In the several hundred years since it had died of disease, of genocide, of sloth and self-indulgence, rebuilding after each death and recovering a new personality on the foundations of the old. Now on the cusp of another death and rebirth, it has become an ailing city of cabals and conspiracies, tempers fraying and teeth on edge, and a handful of ordinary people drowning in their own lives who never expected to be on the front lines of this war.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kitty Chandler
• Release date: Jan 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370547685

Kitty Chandler

Kitty Chandler was born in the fair city of Washington DC and as a little girl discovered her grandmother's secret stash of mystery pulps and cozies and was lost forever. Raised and educated in two languages, she spent her childhood doing as little schoolwork and as much story writing as possible before wandering off to the lower reaches of Wisconsin to study anthropology, history, and whatever else came to mind. After a series of unfortunate career decisions she found herself back in the mountains again, where she curls up in her farmhouse with its castle walls and spends half of her time working at her family business. The other half of her time she spends writing or thinking about the writing she should be doing. She is owned by five cats and supported by an extremely tolerant boyfriend.

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Empty House

Copyright © 2014 Kitty Chandler

Cover photograph © 2006 amelungc at Flickr

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-312-80004-5

In a move called predictable by some, H.R. 7152 otherwise known as the Right to Live Freely Act was rejected in the Senate earlier this morning.

-- Erik Wurth Senate Rejects Bill: More Anti-Human Riots Ahead?

The New York Enquirer

He'd traded out the steel grays and endless rain of the city for shades of dirt and grass some fifty miles, but what he liked most was the sky. This far out of the city he could see blue sky again. Open spaces, real green things that weren't circled by iron and aluminum. It was like there was a world out there humans hadn't beaten into submission.

Funny, a Hellhound calling out a human for beating things into submission.

Lately they'd been packing up and moving to the cities, but when he was a pup, being out on the land was a Hellhound's bag. Some of them had signed up to work in the new machine manufactories just so they could stay out there, not have to go in where the better-paying city jobs were. Some felt, even if they couldn't keep their farms, they could help build towards those who had. And those still lucky enough to keep hold of their land and livestock while the ever-growing companies bought up everything, they took on the pups they could, but tensions had gotten ugly. Humans didn't want their food touched by Hounds anymore. It had started with the fae getting out of control round the big stock market crash, kept on into the war when the no non-humans allowed rules meant all of them stayed behind while the humans went off to fight the wars. Accusations of taking their jobs, taking their women, when the humans gone off to Europe came back and found the country hadn't stood still for them. They took back all they could. They were still finding ways to take, and as the country claimed to grow great, times got tougher for Hound and fae and anything not pure, straight-up human.

He had a city job at least. Mechanic's work at a good garage, he'd always been good with his hands. But she hadn't wanted to raise their pups in the tall buildings with all those humans around. So they split up. She took the kids, stayed down