Hazeldene's Gamble

By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

With his troop of cavalry taken away from him, Nicodemus Hazeldene finds himself with three ships and all but one of the officers of his old troop. Making the best of a bad situation, he hires a crew for the ships after accepting a commission from a sinister wizard to find the Raven Queen's Amulet of Passage, said to be hidden on the remote Wolftooth Island, unaware that one of his small company of officers is going to betray him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• Release date: Aug 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463821831

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Chelsea Q. Yarbro is the first woman to be named a Living Legend by the International Horror Guild and is one of only two women ever to be named as Grand Master of the World Horror Convention (2003). In 1995, Yarbro was the only novelist guest of the Romanian government for the First World Dracula Congress, sponsored by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula, the Romanian Bureau of Tourism, and the Romanian Ministry of Culture. Yarbro is best known as the creator of the heroic vampire the Count Saint-Germain. With her creation of Saint-Germain, she delved into history and vampiric literature and subverted the standard myth to invent the first vampire who was more honorable, humane, and heroic than most of the humans around him. She fully meshed the vampire with romance and accurately detailed historical fiction, and filtered it through a feminist perspective that made both the giving of sustenance and its taking of equal erotic potency. A professional writer since 1968, Yarbro has worked in a wide variety of genres, from science fiction to Westerns, from young adult adventure to historical horror. A skeptical occultist for forty years, Yarbro has studied everything from alchemy to zoomancy, and in the late 1970s worked occasionally as a professional tarot card reader and palmist at the Magic Cellar in San Francisco.

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