Clarence A. Haynes + Krishan Trotman: Broken Hearts Agency

Joining Clarence in conversation is Vice-President of Publisher of Legacy Lit, Krishan Trotman. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd-floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

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In a spicy, contemporary fantasy novel, private investigator Linda Villanueva runs a detective agency for troubled souls using her mystical powers—all while wrestling with her own heart. Cebo Campbell, author of Sky Full of Elephants, ​calls it​ “Lush, provocative, and deeply human.”

AN EVIL FORCE IS FEASTING ON DESIRE.

Evelyn Kendricks is having a day. An overworked manager, she’s been dumped by her toxic boyfriend while struggling to cope with the recent ghost invasion that’s shocked the world. Devastated, she is mysteriously summoned to an eerie townhouse where she meets Linda Villaneuva, a private investigator who runs a secret mystical detective agency. She’s able to sense the emotions of others, especially those suffering from heartache.

Linda would like nothing more than to help her latest client, but she soon makes a gruesome discovery: People are losing their memories and wandering DC streets in a zombie-like daze. Their eyes, demon red. Their skin, blistered, burning... and no one understands why. Panic has begun to consume the city as more folks succumb, putting Evelyn and other residents at risk.

In the biggest case of her life, Linda follows a trail of clues to unearth an evil force far deadlier than anything she could’ve imagined. And all the while, she must reckon with the tragedies of her past and the price she’s paid for her supernatural gifts.

A layered urban fantasy that serves up spicy romance, titillating mystery, and otherworldly horror, The Broken Hearts Agency is the latest page-turner from an acclaimed storyteller.

Photo credit: Erin Patrice O'Brien

Clarence A. Haynes, a native Afro Latinx New Yorker, is the author of the acclaimed urban fantasy novel The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery as well as co-author of actor/producer Omar Epps’s YA Afrofuturist series Nubia: The Awakening and The Reckoning. He is also the author of the middle-grade nonfiction work, The Legacy of Jim Crow. Haynes has penned articles for Newsday, Huffington Post, The Root, and The Grio, among other publications. He resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Krishan Trotman is the Vice-President, Publisher of Legacy Lit. In 2020, she launched Legacy Lit, an imprint dedicated to books that give voice to issues, authors, and communities that have been marginalized, underserved, and overlooked. The imprint is committed to promoting equality, equity, and inclusion for all people. Her authors have included a range of award-winning and New York Times bestsellers, including late U.S. Congressman John Lewis; journalist Stephanie Land, former White House social secretary Deesha Dyer, and more. Krishan has been featured in the New York Times, Essence Magazine, New York Magazine, Forbes, Shondaland, CSPAN, and more. She is the self-described Beyoncé of Books and mom to her son Bleu.

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