The Lazarus Vector
By
Erica Obey
Genre: Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy
Release
Date: October 11, 2016
“In this fascinating contemporary paranormal
mystery, Obey deftly combines political intrigue, tests of ethics, and the
danger of miracles."
Resurrection in
the Bronx Sends Professor into an Underworld of Corporate Conspiracies
When Professor
Clare Malley, a medievalist teaching at a Catholic university in New York City,
is asked to discover why sixteen-year-old Jonas Crosswell did not die in a
drug-related shoot-out at a neighborhood church, the last thing she expects is
a modern-day miracle. But how else to explain how the boy survived multiple
gunshot wounds? Was it a miracle performed by the mysterious Father Enoch? Or
did St. Lazarus himself intervene? And what does Jonas's experience have to do
with Sean, the troubled heir to a pharmaceutical fortune who vanished after he
was also supposedly miraculously cured? When Clare tries to discover whether
there is a connection between Jonas and Sean, she uncovers an all-too-real,
unholy conspiracy to use neighborhood drug dealers as unknowing guinea pigs.
Sean may be the only one who can answer her questions and the only one who can
truly touch her heart.
There are three places you can find Erica when
she’s not writing: on a hiking trail, in her garden, or at the back of the pack
in her local road race. Her favorite kind of vacation is backpacking across
Dartmoor or among the hills of Wales in order to find new and exciting legends
about Druids, fairy folk and unsolved mysteries to inspire her own writing.
After she graduated from Yale University, this interest in folkore and legend
led her to an M.A. in Creative Writing from City College of New York and a Ph.D.
in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York, where she
published articles and a book about female folklorists of the nineteenth
century before she decided she’d rather be writing the stories herself.
Along with their macaw Fasolt and a rotating
assortment of cats, she and her husband divide their time between New York City
and Woodstock, where they spend far too much time gardening – growing native
woodland plants, roses, and old-fashioned cottage favorites, while fighting the
chipmunks for the fruits of their kitchen garden – and losing. She is
passionately committed to finding new and exciting recipes and eating with the
seasons, although it’s abundantly clear that if she and her husband actually
have to live off the land, they’d die. Check out some pictures on her website,
beginning on St. David’s Day (Mar.1.)
As for her supremely untalented running, well,
it gives her a chance to relax and think about her novels, even if, when she’s
training for a marathon, it literally takes all day – as does walking the 2
miles back and forth from her apartment in Manhattan to Fordham University,
where she teaches writing.
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