Description
Review “Witty and winsome, this rollicking tall tale makes its own rules.” — Booklist (starred review) “Full of twists, turns, and laugh-out-loud humor, this tongue-in-cheek feminist alternative history is impossible to put down. A thrilling alternative history that sparkles with wit and charm.” — Kirkus Reviews About the Author Cynthia Hand is the New York Times bestselling author of several books for teens, including the Unearthly trilogy, The Afterlife of Holly Chase , The Last Time We Say Goodbye , and My Lady Jane and My Plain Jane (with fellow authors Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows). She currently resides in Boise, Idaho, with her husband, who loves typewriters as much as she does, two cats, two kids, one crazy dog, and a mountain of books. Visit her online at www.cynthiahandbooks.com. BRODI ASHTON is the author of Everneath , a VOYA Perfect 10 for 2011; Everbound ; and Evertrue ; and the coauthor, with Cynthia Hand and Jodi Meadows, of My Lady Jane . She received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Utah and a master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. Brodi lives in Utah with her family. You can visit her online at www.brodiashton.blogspot.com Jodi Meadows wants to be a ferret when she grows up and she has no self-control when it comes to yarn, ink, or outer space. Still, she manages to write books. She is the author of the Incarnate trilogy, the Orphan Queen duology, and the Fallen Isles trilogy and coauthor of the New York Times bestsellers My Lady Jane , My Plain Jane , and My Calamity Jane . Visit her at www.jodimeadows.com.
Features & Highlights
- Hold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the
- New York Times
- bestseller
- My Plain Jane
- , which
- Booklist
- praised as “delightfully deadpan” (starred review) and
- Publishers Weekly
- called “a clever, romantic farce” (starred review), are back with another irreverent historical adventure.
- Welcome to 1876 America, a place bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou—better known as werewolves.
- And where there are garou, there’re hunters: the one and only Calamity Jane, to be precise, along with her fellow stars of Wild Bill’s Traveling Show, Annie Oakley and Frank “the Pistol Prince” Butler.
- After a garou hunt goes south and Jane finds a suspicious-like bite on her arm, she turns tail for Deadwood, where there’s talk of a garou cure. But rumors can be deceiving—meaning the gang better hightail it after her before they’re a day late and a Jane short.
- In this perfect next read for fans of
- A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
- , bestselling authors Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, and Brodi Ashton bring their signature spark to the side-splittin’, whopper-filled (but actually kind of factual?) tale of Calamity Jane.
