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Harry Connolly
Harry Connolly spent two years writing his first novel, Child of Fire. He has held a variety of jobs in the past, from customer service to landscaping to stay-at-home dad. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Here’s Harry Connolly’s website.
Twenty Palaces
Twenty Palaces — (2009-2011) Twenty Palaces is a prequel ebook. Publisher: Ray Lilly is just supposed to be the driver. Sure, he has a little magic, but it’s Annalise, his boss, who has the real power. Ray may not like driving her across the country so she can hunt and kill people who play with dangerous spells — especially summoning spells — but if he tries to quit he’ll move right to the top of her hit list. Unfortunately, Annalise’s next kill goes wrong and she is critically injured. Ray must complete her assignment alone–he has to stop a man who’s sacrificing children to make his community thrive, and also find the inhuman supernatural power fueling his magic. Child of Fire is a contemporary fantasy in the tone and style of a crime thriller.
Ray Lilly works for Annalise Powliss, a sort of enforcer among sorcerers, and he’s terrified of her. She wants to kill him, but she’s been forbidden to, and so is forced to settle for using him as a chauffeur and hired hand in all things magical and mundane.
On their first outing, they work together to help a family whose child has just spontaneously combusted before their eyes, ultimately dissolving into a mass of fat, wriggling, silver-gray worms. But the family doesn’t want their help; they’ve forgotten their son ever existed, even while still within view of the black scorch mark left behind when he caught fire.
And all this happens within the first ten pages of Harry Connolly’s Child of Fire, the first in a series of urban fantasies known collectively as the TWENTY PALACES series. There are three novels publishe... Read More
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Harry Connolly spent two years writing his first novel, Child of Fire. He has held a variety of jobs in the past, from customer service to landscaping to stay-at-home dad. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Here’s 
Child of Fire by Harry Connolly
Storm at the Edge of Time: Interesting, but hardly exceptional story
The Drawing of the Three: A Posse of New Yorkers
My Dead Body: Just a brilliant finish to a brilliant series
