Tasmanian Gothic – Mikhaeyla Kopievsky 


 

Sometimes you have to become the thing you hate to find the one you love.

Solari wasn’t alive when the ozone layer split like a gutted fish above Tasmania and spilled radiation over the edge of the stratosphere, but she’s living with the consequences—the mutations, the gangland war, and the border wall that divides the affluent North from the contaminated South. Orphaned and alone in the southern reaches, Solari survives the chaos the only way she knows how: cooking the wildly addictive snowrock for local crime lord, Worcsulakz, and avoiding the mutants that skulk in the lush, untamed wilderness of the Fringes.

But, when her junkie ex-boyfriend puts Solari more firmly in the crime lord’s debt, she runs—escaping the promise of violent retribution with a stolen van, a handful of cash, and a pair of giant wings cleaved from a mutant moth. Grafting the wings to her body will disguise Solari as one of Tasmania’s most reviled, and set her on the dangerous journey through gangland strongholds and carnival towns to the Border Wall in the north.

Hunted by Worcsulakz, the hidden terrors of the Fringes, the secrets in her family’s past, and the deception at the core of her fragile alliance, Solari will need to confront them all or stay condemned to a life of loneliness and brutality.

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Subgenres: Apocalyptic / Post-Apocalyptic, 1, Dystopian, Genetic Engineering, Horror, Romance, Weird

Date first published:  July 1, 2022

On Kindle Unlimited: No

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Author Information

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikhaeylaK

Website: https://mikhaeylakopievsky.com/

Biography: Mikhaeyla Kopievsky is an Australian speculative fiction author. She is the author of the Divided Elements series and Tasmanian Gothic. She was longlisted for the 2019 EJ Brady Short Story Competition for her piece, Grasshopper, and her debut novel, Resistance, was a semi-finalist in the inaugural SPSF Competition. Born in Sydney, Mikhaeyla now lives in the Hunter Valley with her husband, son, two rescue dogs, four Australorp chooks, a hive of cantankerous bees, and the occasional herd of beautiful Black Angus steers. When she is not writing or reading, Mikhaeyla enjoys cooking with the produce harvested from her kitchen garden, going to the beach, stargazing, and training to be a ninja.

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Cover artist name: Ethan Scott

Cover artist website: https://www.facebook.com/EthanScottIllustration

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