Silk & Steel: A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology Afterglow Books by Harlequin Award-winning author Patrick Ness explores

Award-winning author Patrick Ness explores teen sexuality

Then a groundbreaking new law--the Child Victims Act--opens a new way foreword: a one-year window during which Dylan can sue his abusers

they will need to work together to face demons and the hungers they would sooner bury

ruminative poems: to recreate

and even transform them into her greatest strengths

Silk & Steel: A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology Afterglow Books by Harlequin Award-winning author Patrick Ness exploresThere are many ways to be a heroine. Princess and swordswoman, lawyer and motorcyclist, scholar and barbarian: there are many ways to be a heroine. In this anthology, seventeen authors find new ways to pair one weapon wielding woman and one whose strengths lie in softer skills. "Which is more powerful, the warrior or the gentlewoman?" these stories ask. And the answer is inevitably, "Both, working together!" Herein, you'll find duels and smugglers,