Previous SFF Author: Annmarie Banks
Dakota Banks has written scifi and thrillers (under a different name) but turned to fantasy when she “felt hemmed in by reality.” She lives on the western fringe of St. Louis, Missouri with her husband and two cats. Their two sons, one adopted from Peru and the other from Ethiopia, are in college. Read an excerpt of Dark Time at Dakota Banks’ website.
Dark Time by Dakota Banks is a technothriller disguised as an urban fantasy. For it to reach its ideal audience, it should instead be titled something like “The Anu Tablet” and have an ominously lit historic building on its cover.
The story begins in colonial times, when Susannah Layhem is accused of witchcraft and sentenced to burn at the stake. (Never mind that nobody was burned as a witch in the American colonies; they were hanged.) As she is dying,
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Previous SFF Author: Annmarie Banks
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