“Tell me a story, Orange. Tell me what you know since you do not know what you are.”
I had to ask. “What are you?”
“Something like you.” She smiled. It was not reassuring. “Something inhuman.”
“My mom is a mailman. Mail person.”
She coughed. “You’re a chimera? A hybrid?”
I raised a brow. “Is that bad?”
“Just rare.”
I was sitting here listening to a stranger tell me goblins were real and nodding as if I believed her. A horrible thought occurred. “If goblins are real, does that mean everything else is?”
A college student discovers her inheritance isn’t the money her family desperately needs, but the magic of the most powerful hobgoblin on earth. She accidentally destroys one teeny tiny building with it and gets arrested for terrorism by the FBI, even as far more dangerous creatures converge seeking that power for themselves, threatening her and all of DC.
With her strange new powers manifesting faster than she can learn to control them and FBI breathing down her neck, she wants nothing more than to abandon her father’s secrets and go home, but when a fire-breathing nightmare out of her old bedtime stories threatens the city in pursuit, she can’t walk away.
This novella launches the Orange Sinclair Urban Fantasy Series about a hobgoblin named Orange and her quest to help the FBI wrestle Washington, DC from the djinn, dragons, fae, old gods, and fairy tales that seek to destroy it.
Kyler Ford writes brainy, funny, feminist, and diverse speculative fiction that explores the old stories we tell ourselves to help us sleep at night, how life can suck less, and our dreams of what’s next.