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by Sean McLachlan

A Fine Likeness (House Divided Book One)

  A Confederate guerrilla and a Union captain discover there’s something more dangerous in the woods than each other.

  Jimmy Rawlins is a teenage bushwhacker who leads his friends on ambushes of Union patrols. They join infamous guerrilla leader Bloody Bill Anderson on a raid through Missouri, but Jimmy questions his commitment to the cause when he discovers this madman plans to sacrifice a Union prisoner in a hellish ritual to raise the Confederate dead.

  Richard Addison is an aging captain of a lackluster Union militia. Depressed over his son’s death in battle, a glimpse of Jimmy changes his life. Jimmy and his son look so much alike that Addison becomes obsessed with saving him from Bloody Bill. Captain Addison must wreck his reputation to win this war within a war, while Jimmy must decide whether to betray the Confederacy to stop the evil arising in the woods of Missouri.

  Available in print and electronic editions!

  The River of Desperation (House Divided Book Two)

  In the waning days of the Civil War, a secret conflict still rages…

  Lieutenant Allen Addison of the USS Essex is looking forward to the South's defeat so he can build the life he's always wanted. Love and a promising business await him in St. Louis, but he is swept up in a primeval war between the forces of Order and Chaos, a struggle he doesn't understand and can barely believe in. Soon he is fighting to keep a grip on his sanity as he tries to save St. Louis from destruction.

  The long-awaited sequel to A Fine Likeness continues the story of two opposing forces that threaten to tear the world apart.

  Available in electronic edition!

  Radio Hope (Toxic World Book One)

  In a world shattered by war, pollution and disease…

  A gunslinging mother longs to find a safe refuge for her son.

  A frustrated revolutionary delivers water to villagers living on a toxic waste dump.

  The assistant mayor of humanity's last city hopes he will never have to take command.

  One thing gives them the promise of a better future—Radio Hope, a mysterious station that broadcasts vital information about surviving in a blighted world. But when a mad prophet and his army of fanatics march out of the wildlands on a crusade to purify the land with blood and fire, all three will find their lives intertwining, and changing forever.

  Available in print and electronic editions!

  Refugees from the Righteous Horde (Toxic World Book Two)

  When you only have one shot, you better aim true.

  In a ravaged world, civilization’s last outpost is reeling after fighting off the fanatical warriors of the Righteous Horde. Sheriff Annette Cruz becomes New City’s long arm of vengeance as she sets off across the wildlands to take out the cult’s leader. All she has is a sniper’s rifle with one bullet and a former cultist with his own agenda. Meanwhile, one of the cult’s escaped slaves makes a discovery that could tear New City apart…

  Refugees from the Righteous Horde continues the Toxic World series started in Radio Hope, an ongoing narrative of humanity’s struggle to rebuild the world it ruined.

  Available in electronic edition!

  We Had Flags (Toxic World Book Three)

  A law doesn't work if everyone breaks it.

  For forty years, New City has been a bastion of order in a fallen world. One crucial law has maintained the peace: it is illegal to place responsibility for the collapse of civilization on any one group. Anyone found guilty of Blaming is branded and stripped of citizenship.

  But when some unwelcome visitors arrive from across the sea, old wounds break open, and no one is safe from Blame.

  Available in electronic edition!

  The Scavenger (A Toxic World Novelette)

  In a world shattered by war, pollution, and disease, a lone scavenger discovers a priceless relic from the Old Times.

  The problem is, it’s stuck in the middle of the worst wasteland he knows—a contaminated city inhabited by insane chem addicts and vengeful villagers. Only his wits, his gun, and an unlikely ally can get him out alive.

  Set in the Toxic World series introduced in the novel Radio Hope, this 10,000-word story explores more of the dangers and personalities that make up a post-apocalyptic world that's all too possible.

  Available in electronic edition!

  The Last Hotel Room

  He came to Tangier to die, but life isn’t done with him yet.

  Tom Miller has lost his job, his wife, and his dreams. Broke and alone, he ends up in a flophouse in Morocco, ready to end it all. But soon he finds himself tangled in a web of danger and duty as he’s pulled into scamming tourists for a crooked cop while trying to help a Syrian refugee boy survive life on the streets. Can a lifelong loser do something good for a change?

  A portion of my royalties will go to a charity for Syrian refugees.

  Available in electronic edition!

  The Night the Nazis Came to Dinner and Other Dark Tales

  A spectral dinner party goes horribly wrong…

  An immortal warrior hopes a final battle will set him free…

  A big-game hunter preys on endangered species to supply an illicit restaurant…

  A new technology soothes First World guilt…

  Here are four dark tales that straddle the boundary between reality and speculation. You better hope they don’t come true.

  Available in electronic edition!

  The Quintessence of Absence

  Can a drug-addicted sorcerer sober up long enough to save a kidnapped girl and his own duchy?

  In an alternate eighteenth-century Germany where magic is real and paganism never died, Lothar is in the bonds of nepenthe, a powerful drug that gives him ecstatic visions. It has also taken his job, his friends, and his self-respect. Now his old employer has rehired Lothar to find the man's daughter, who is in the grip of her own addiction to nepenthe.

  As Lothar digs deeper into the girl's disappearance, he uncovers a plot that threatens the entire Duchy of Anhalt, and finds that the only way to stop it is to face his own weakness.

  Available in electronic edition!

  History Books by Sean McLachlan

  Wild West History

  Apache Warrior vs. US Cavalryman: 1846-86 (Osprey: 2016)

  Tombstone—Wyatt Earp, the O.K. Corral, and the Vendetta Ride (Osprey: 2013)

  The Last Ride of the James-Younger Gang (Osprey: 2012)

  Civil War History

  Ride Around Missouri: Shelby’s Great Raid 1863 (Osprey: 2011)

  American Civil War Guerrilla Tactics (Osprey: 2009)

  Missouri History

  Outlaw Tales of Missouri (Globe Pequot: 2009)

  Missouri: An Illustrated History (Hippocrene: 2008)

  It Happened in Missouri (Globe Pequot: 2007)

  Medieval History

  Medieval Handgonnes: The First Black Powder Infantry Weapons (Osprey: 2010)

  Byzantium: An Illustrated History (Hippocrene: 2004)

  African History

  Armies of the Adowa Campaign 1896: The Italian Disaster in Ethiopia (Osprey: 2011)

 

 

 


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