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"Brilliantly dark, captivating." - Elizabeth Hand on Good Girls Glen Hirshbergs critically-acclaimed trilogy comes to a shattering conclusion that proves that this International Horror Guild and Shirley Jackson Award winner understands the true depths and heights of this thing called life.Librarian Emilia is alone in a library that is soon to close its doors forever. Alone save for one last patron, his head completely swathed in bandages, his hands gloved, not one inch of skin exposed. Emilia feels sorry for him - like her, he is always alone.Today, he sees, really sees, Emilia. What he does to her then is unspeakable. Thousands of miles away, another victim rises - a dead woman who still lives. Sophie is determined to protect the people she loves best in the world - but she is a monster. To Jess, it doesnt matter that Sophie was once as close to her as her own daughter. It doesnt matter that Sophies baby died so that Jesss grandson could live. It only matters that Sophie is a vampire. Vampires cant be trusted. Even if they love you.Aunt Sally loved all the monsters shed created in the hundreds of years since she died and rose again. She loved her home in the bayou. When her existence was exposed to the human world, she didnt hesitate to destroy her home, and her offspring, to save herself. Herself, and one special girl, Aunt Sallys last chance to be a perfect mother. These people are drawn together from across the United States, bound by love and hatred, by the desire for reunification and for revenge. In their own ways, they are all monsters. Some deserve to live.Some do not.Motherless Children Trilogy#1 Motherless Child#2 Good Girls#3 Nothing to DevourAt the Publishers request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Glen Hirshberg received his B.A. from Columbia University, where he won the Bennett Cerf Prize, and his M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Montana. His first book, THE SNOWMAN'S CHILDREN, was a Literary Guild Featured Selection, and his second, THE TWO SAMS, was a PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY Best Book of 2003. He has won three International Horror Guild Awards (including two for Outstanding Collection) , and his novella, "The Janus Tree," won the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award in 2008. He also has been a Bram Stoker Award finalist and a five-time World Fantasy Award finalist. With Peter Atkins and Dennis Etchison, he co-founded the Rolling Darkness Revue, an annual reading/live music/performance event that tours the West Coast every fall. While teaching at Cal State San Bernardino and at Campbell Hall in Studio City, he developed the CREW Project, through which he trains his advanced students to run intensive creative writing workshops for secondary and elementary schools that have no programs of their own. He lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife, son, daughter, and cats.
