EUGEN BACON is an African Australian author of several novels and fiction collections as well as Writing Speculative Fiction by Bloomsbury. Her books Ivory's Story, Danged Black Thing, and Saving Shadows were finalists for the British Science Fiction Association Awards, and she has been nominated for, or has won awards including the Foreword Indies Award, Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, Horror Writers Association Diversity Grant, Otherwise Fellowship, Nommo Award, and others. Bacon's creative work has appeared in Award Winning Australian Writing, Fantasy Magazine, Year's Best African Speculative Fiction, and Fantasy & Science Fiction. Visit her website at eugenbacon.com.
Shirley Jackson Awards, Shortlist
BSFA Awards for Best Shorter Fiction, Shortlist
Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans, Shortlist
After falling out with her brothers, Samaki the goddess of water flees to Earth where she must mask her trace by splitting into a quadruplet of magi.A quadruplet is perfect, but all things are never equal. Dissonance arises when the magus Umozi breaks the quadruplet.Only the newness of a child magus can restore balance and save a broken paradise-with the help of a goddess mother.
A dark fantasy of gods, magic and family-what happens when they break.
After falling out...