Post by hauntedjen on May 26, 2017 18:08:19 GMT -5
In 1893, Mr. Edwin Ames is attacked by a vampire and discovers he is incapable of having children with his new bride. Desperate for a child, he looks to his hobby garden with its Camperdown Elm, a mutant tree that must be grafted to another to survive. He wonders, could he graft his own family tree? He need look no further for test subjects than the family next door.
Lizzie Gates is a headstrong Victorian newlywed trapped in a loveless marriage. When an old suitor returns to Port Gamble, she indulges in an affair that results in a child. Between her cruel husband and the odd attentions of her neighbor Mr. Ames, Lizzie fears for her unborn child and must band together with her prim sister, her paramour, and a flamboyant spiritualist. The motley crew follows the advice of the Stanford Society, a secret monster hunting group, and attempt to destroy the vampire forever.
One hundred twenty years later, Mr. Ames mysteriously returns to Seattle society where he meets Lizzie’s descendant Emily Stevens, a young woman on the verge of starting her own family. Mr. Ames’s madness reignites and it is up to her to put him in the grave for good or risk becoming his newest experiment.
The Arborist is an adult speculative fiction complete at 105,000 words.
Lizzie Gates is a headstrong Victorian newlywed trapped in a loveless marriage. When an old suitor returns to Port Gamble, she indulges in an affair that results in a child. Between her cruel husband and the odd attentions of her neighbor Mr. Ames, Lizzie fears for her unborn child and must band together with her prim sister, her paramour, and a flamboyant spiritualist. The motley crew follows the advice of the Stanford Society, a secret monster hunting group, and attempt to destroy the vampire forever.
One hundred twenty years later, Mr. Ames mysteriously returns to Seattle society where he meets Lizzie’s descendant Emily Stevens, a young woman on the verge of starting her own family. Mr. Ames’s madness reignites and it is up to her to put him in the grave for good or risk becoming his newest experiment.
The Arborist is an adult speculative fiction complete at 105,000 words.
