Stone's Throe by C E Murphy

Stone's Throe by C E Murphy

A monster-a mobster-a lover.

Le Monstre aux Yeux Verts, the Green-Eyed Monster, holds Paris under his thumb, but young Amelia Stone vows to free her parents from his influence at any cost. Born to carry the spirit of justice through a new century, she risks everything-even the love of her family's mysterious Benefactor-to right the wrongs the Green-Eyed Monster has wrought...and in one crumbling moment, she both succeeds, and loses everything...

But when rumor of all-too-familiar danger returns, Amelia fears her long-ago successes were failures after all. A new phantom haunts Josephine Baker, star of the Parisian opera house, and Amelia is determined that Josephine won't suffer the same losses her own family did many years ago. In order to keep the singer safe, Amelia must face her own regrets, reckon with her oldest enemy...and once more find herself in love's throes.

Because Hell may have no fury like devotion denied...but by Amelia's hand, justice will be done.

Zina Hutton once leapt out of a window to avoid ballet class in the Virgin Islands when she was a child. She's now a speculative fiction author who, whenever inspiration hits, dives headfirst into new stories and universes. Zina lives in sweltering South Florida, where she never leaves home without a notebook and her prized Kindles. Zina works as a marketing assistant, but she's also a published author, with non-fiction in Fireside Fiction, Anathema Magazine, The Mary Sue, Strange Horizons, ComicsAlliance, and Women Write About Comics, as well as many short tales in other publications.