Description:
Anna Hoyt owns and runs her own tavern in 1745 Boston, Massachusetts, making her a target for criminals. The tavern is her only security, and she won't sell. With no protection, faced with death, Anna takes matters into her own hands.
Brief description: Dana Cameron writes across many genres, but especially crime and speculative fiction. Her work, inspired by her career in archaeology, has won multiple Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity Awards, and her short story "Femme Sole" was short-listed for the Edgar Award. Dana is best known for the Emma Fielding archaeology mysteries (now on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries) and the Fangborn urban fantasy novels.
Review Quotes:
"Dana Cameron brings the quays and taverns of 18th-century Boston to reeking, cacophonous life in this wonderful novel and introduces us to a truly original heroine. Anna Hoyt, a young widow determined to make it in a world determined to stop her, is by turns flinty, vulnerable, enterprising, merciless, and always compelling. Beautiful and brutal - I loved it." - Catriona McPherson, multi-award-winning author of In Place Of Fear
If you think the smart, remorseless, bad-ass female protagonist is a product of the noir art of the 20th Century, you haven't met Anna Hoyt. In pre-Revolutionary Boston, where a woman isn't safe without a man and must have legal permission to own property, Anna dreams of freedom, of making her own way. And over and over, finds the means. A completely new kind of character in a fully-realized world. I couldn't put it down." -- SJ Rozan, best-selling author of The Murder of Mr. Ma