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One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother was shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it.As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events. Members of a local werewolf pack are threatened into silence. A professor follows a missing friend's trail of bread crumbs to a mysterious secret society. And a young boy with unique abilities seeks refuge in a pro-monster organization with secrets of its own. Meanwhile, more people start disappearing, suicides and hate crimes increase, and protests erupt globally, both for and against the monsters.



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Cadwell Turnbull

Hi, I'm Cadwell Turnbull, author of the science fiction novel The Lesson and No Gods, No Monsters. I received my MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Linguistics at North Carolina State University. I also attended Clarion West 2016.My short fiction can be found in the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Nightmare to name a few. My Nightmare story "Loneliness is in Your Blood" was selected for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018. My Asimov's novelette "Other Worlds and This One" was also selected as a notable story for the anthology. My short story "Jump" was selected for the Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019.My debut novel The Lesson is set in my native U.S. Virgin Islands after an alien colonization. The Lesson was the recipient of the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Award in the debut category. It has also been optioned by AMC for a television series in collaboration with The Mission Entertainment. No Gods, No Monsters has been listed as a Best Books of 2021 by The New York Times, NPR, The New York Public Library, Audible, Tor.com, Book Riot, Library Journal, and Kirkus!



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