Willow Locke - Anarchist Detective
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Last published Tue, Dec 5, 2017
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Willow Locke, a teenage immigrant living in turn-of-the century Manhattan, must find the strength within her to protect her family from an insidious corporate plot to destroy the unions. Her father and sister are primary targets, marked for death. By chance she falls in with reclusive fallen inventor, Nikola Tesla, who begins to build the weapons she needs to single handedly combat the deadly Pinkertons, a private militia hired by the corporation. Her partner in the investigation is an English schoolboy and a brilliant intellectual, James Whitcomb. Just as their partnership as detectives begins to blossom into love, or infatuation, James encounters a deeper evil within the corporation, an undying thing called the Amilech. The revelation comes too late to save him from infection. Can Willow save the boy she loves and protect her family? No one is safe. Danger is everywhere in this high-tech supernatural thriller.
Updates every weekend. Thank you for reading! Please message me and share your stories! Willow Locke, Anarchist Detective is a steampunk science fiction thriller with a supernatural edge set in New York City in 1910. The story is built around the pivotal events of the labor movement. The novel includes depictions of anarchist Emma Goldman and suffragettes Alva Belmont and Clara Lemlich. The framework of historic events supports a story of dark magic and technological innovation.
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