Splinter Town
It’s rare to form a friendship with someone you’ve had to sentence to death, but I do look forward to our chats while we clean the aviary each morning. Of course, she’ll have to leave soon - how else is she going to earn back her life? I’ll miss her.
She had a rough start in life, those nuns are no better than gangsters, rival abbeys fighting, bloodshed spilling into neighbourhoods. But there’s a whole different personality in her - fierce Martlet, and kind, thoughtful Amelie. George Chandler, Baron of Splinterton
Daringly different yet emotionally grounded, Splinter Town introduces the enigmatic and ruthless agent Martlet. Her journey carves a path through a menacing, mad, darkly funny underworld. Martlet’s plans and alliances start to unravel when she sets foot in the narrow brine-encrusted streets of a fiercely independent wooden town, standing resolute above the waves inside an ancient sea volcano.
Splinter Town takes you to an alternate Britain where geography and history have been fractured by an ancient cataclysm into an environment that is excitingly new, yet eerily parallel to our own.
Operating in the 1920s of a distorted reality, Martlet is a strong female agent for hire, combining espionage skills with a mythic undercurrent. Her story is as compelling at the height of her power as in her unravelling after a disastrous assignment. Martlet’s psychological and political journey mirrors the town’s uneasy balance between independence and coexistance with friends and foes in the Three Nation Region.
The Splinter Town series weaves the lives of diverse and intense characters around Martlet’s mercurial trajectory, forming a delightfully subversive fusion of steampunk grit, black-ops intrigue, religious absurdism, cryptozoic fantasy, and speculative politics.
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