High Stakes

This includes my multi-part story as part of full mosaic novel...

Perfect for old fans and new readers alike, High Stakes (Wild Cards)  delves deeper into the world of aces, jokers, and the hard-boiled men  and women of the Fort Freak police precinct in a pulpy, page-turning  novel of superheroics and Lovecraftian horror bu George R. R. Martin and  Melinda M. Snodgrass..

After the concluding events of Lowball,  Officer Francis Black of Fort Freak, vigilante joker Marcus "The  Infamous Black Tongue" Morgan, and ace thief Mollie "Tesseract"  Steunenberg get stuck in Talas, Kazakhstan. There, the coldblooded Baba  Yaga forces jokers into an illegal fighting ring, but her hidden agenda  is much darker: her fighters' deaths serve to placate a vicious monster  from another dimension. When the last line of defense against this world  weakens, all hell breaks loose, literally....

The Committee in  New York sends a team of aces to investigate. One by one, each falls  victim to evil forces--including the dark impulses within themselves.  Only the perseverance of the most unlikely of heroes has a chance of  saving the world before utter chaos erupts on Earth. 

Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin, High Stakes features  the writing talents of Melinda M. Snodgrass, John Jos. Miller, David  Anthony Durham, Caroline Spector, Stephen Leigh, and Ian Tregillis.