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The propulsive follow-up to Bohemian Gospel, which sends Mouse on a dangerous journey to Europe to find the missing pages from The Devil's Bible -- a mission which just may have a chance to save the world from the forces of evil. She calls herself Emma Lucas and, to the outsider, she looks just like a normal professor at a Nashville university. But Mouse has a secret she's spent the last 700 years trying to hide -- and that secret threatens to be revealed when one of her former students arrives in town to promote his controversial new book. He'd been fascinated with The Devil's Bible ever since Mouse had mentioned it to him in class years earlier -- perhaps even saying a bit too much and indicating her own involvement with the creation of the notorious religious relic.
About the Author
Dana Chamblee Carpenter's debut novel, BOHEMIAN GOSPEL, won Killer Nashville's 2014 Claymore Award and has been praised as "A grand, thought-provoking adventure in sorrow, joy and magic," by J. T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of What Lies Behind. Mark Richard, author of The Ice at the Bottom of the World says, "Like a rushing river, BOHEMIAN GOSPEL, flows bright, dappled with a patina of legend, and has a current that runs deep and wonderfully dark. The reader will be swept along in this bold debut."
Her second novel, THE DEVIL'S BIBLE, a sequel to BOHEMIAN GOSPEL, will be out in March 2017.
Carpenter's award-winning short fiction is also featured in Killer Nashville Noir: Cold Blooded and has appeared in The Arkansas Review, Jersey Devil Press, and Maypop.
An Arkansas native, Carpenter received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Mississippi. Though initially lured by the pragmatic academic world, Carpenter secretly nurtured her dream of writing stories, and, once the dust had settled on the dissertation, she gave herself over to what she'd known since she was a child - she was meant to be a storyteller.
She currently teaches creative writing and American Literature at a university in Nashville, TN, where she lives with her husband and two children, who are desperately trying to turn the house into a model of Luna Lovegood's eccentric home with glass beads and bells and little figures nestled into every nook and cranny. Hopefully there aren't any exploding dragon horns.
