Melissa Caruso with C. L. Herman

Melissa Caruso, author of the Swords and Fire and Rooks and Ruin series, joins us to share her newest twisty fantasy adventure! The first in a new series, The Last Hour Between Worlds is a whip-smart fantasy packed with reality-bending magic and sapphic romance. Melissa will be joined in conversation by C. L. Herman, co-author of the All Of Us Villains duology. They will discuss The Last Hour Between Worlds, answer audience questions, and sign books!

Tickets are required for this event. Ticket options for this event include:

• Admission + Book: Each ticket is $21.24 and comes with a copy of The Last Hour Between Worlds to be signed at the event.
• Admission + $5 Coupon: Each ticket is $5, which may be redeemed towards any of Melissa or Charlie's books on the day of the event.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
In the Deep Echoes, no one can save you.
Kembral Thorne has a few hours away from her newborn, and she’s determined to enjoy herself at the year-turning ball. But when guests start dropping dead, she can’t help sniffing out trouble—she’s a Hound, after all. Especially when her professional and personal nemesis, notorious burglar Rika Nonesuch, is also on the prowl.
Everyone knows you shouldn’t get involved with Echo games. Let alone one involving ancient Echo lords who can turn layers of reality into a gameboard with human lives for pieces. But as the ballroom grows stranger and more otherworldly with each strike of the hour, it’s clearly too late.
Kem knows the rules: One Echo down is no big deal. Stay alert for trouble.
Four Echoes down, there are things with eyes in their teeth, and walls that drip blood. Four is the limit.
As the party plunges through increasingly deadly realities, the rules can’t help Kem anymore. She’ll have to rely on her wits—and Rika—to unravel the most dangerous game of the century before it unleashes catastrophe on their world.
For more from Melissa Caruso, check out:
Swords and Fire
The Tethered Mage
The Defiant Heir
​The Unbound Empire
Rooks and Ruin
The Obsidian Tower
The Quicksilver Court
The Ivory Tomb

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Melissa Caruso was born on the summer solstice and went to school in an old mansion with a secret door, but despite this auspicious beginning has yet to develop any known superpowers. Melissa has spent her whole life creating imaginary worlds and, in addition to writing, is also an avid LARPer and tabletop gamer. She graduated with honors in creative writing from Brown University and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Melissa’s first novel, The Tethered Mage, was shortlisted for a Gemmell Morningstar Award for best fantasy debut.

C. L. Herman is the New York Times, USA Today, and national indie bestselling author of atmospheric, magical novels, including the All of Us Villains duology (co-written with Amanda Foody), The Devouring Gray duology, and The Drowning Summer. Their work has received critical and commercial acclaim and has been translated into over ten languages.

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