STRANGE FORTUNE

The new fantasy novel

by Josh Lanyon

Praise for Strange Fortune 

 “Mystery author Lanyon (the Adrien English series) makes his first foray into fantasy with a taut, energetic and romantic tale. In Hidush, an analogue for India in its final days as a British colony, a colonial religious group sends bisexual adventurer Maj. Valentine Strange and troubled witch Aleister Grimshaw to retrieve a goddess’s lost diadem from a mountain monastery. As the two men are beset by traitors, wild animals, monks with political agendas and a spiritual force that threatens all of Hidush, their mutual attraction unfolds beautifully and dramatically.”

Publishers Weekly

“This new take on British India in the post-Mutiny days was fresh, intriguing, nothing short of brilliant. Handsome heroes, excellent villainy, a good measure of travel, action, occult powers, and a real fantasy finale make for an engrossing read and a rewarding one. If Talbot Mundy had written a King of the Khyber Rifles-type adventure for John Barrowman, this would be it.”

Mel Keegan, bestselling author of Nocturne, Dangerous Moonlight, Fortunes of War and the NARC series

 “A fantastic adventure set in a lush, magical world and populated with wonderfully original and engaging characters. Strange Fortune makes for a riveting read.”

Ginn Hale, 2008 Spectrum Award Winner and 2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist

 “Mr. Lanyon brings trademark storytelling excellence to this fresh new fantasy. Engaging characters, a touching love story and breathless action unite with a sensuous setting to create a world of adventure in the tradition of H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines. I couldn’t put it down.”

Alex Beecroft, bestselling author of False Colors

 “Josh Lanyon pulls you in from page one with fast paced adventure, wonderful characters, zippy dialog, brutal, sword-through-the-heart longing. He has an ability to rise above the sexual content and expose the very heart of a character.”

Nose in a Book

 “Have I made it clear yet how much I adore Josh Lanyon? I haven’t, you say? Then let me rectify that here and now. Aside from sharp prose – often funny, always hitting close to the emotional bone – he creates characters I adore and want desperately to follow into the next book, and the next, and the next one after that.”

Book Utopia

“Josh Lanyon is a wonderful voice in M/M romance.”

Elisa Rolle

“Josh Lanyon is a masterful writer you just should not miss if you enjoy M/M romance.”

Two Lips Reviews

 “I always appreciate it when I see how hard an author has worked to make places seem realistic as we read. Lanyon builds an intimacy between men that’s much more than sex. That’s one of my favorite things about a good romance and Josh Lanyon does it well.” 

The Romance Studio

 “Josh’s writing is unique and descriptive. Getting overly attached and involved with his characters is easy to do.”

Joyfully Reviewed

 “Lanyon’s books contain some of the most lyrical and poignant prose I have ever read. His books have everything – excitement from the first page which grabs you by the throat and never lets up, outstanding characterizations, action sequences that would satisfy any, enormous conflict and tension, and  emotional trauma. What do I love best? Always the characters, which is where Josh Lanyon excels and he seems to outdo himself with every new story.”

Reviews by jessewave

 
Dashing soldier of fortune Valentine Strange, late of his Majesty’s 21st Benhali Lancers needs money. Happily, the wealthy Holy Orders of Harappu are desperate to retrieve the diadem of the Goddess Purya from an ancient temple deep in the White Mountains — a dangerous territory Strange knows well. The pay is too good and the job sounds too easy, but Strange is not in position to refuse. When Master Aleister Grimshaw, a dangerous witch with a traitorous lineage joins the expedition, Strange begins to suspect that more is at stake than the retrieval of a mere symbolic relic.

 Grimshaw knows an ancient evil surrounds the diadem. The same evil once hunted him–and still haunts his dreams. However, experience has taught him to keep his suspicions to himself or risk being denounced as a madman. Again.

 Harried by curses, bandits, and unnatural creatures, Strange and Grimshaw plunge onward. But when a demonic power wakes and the civilized world descends into revolution, their tenuous friendship is threatened as each man must face the destruction of the life he has known.

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Josh Lanyon is the author of the Adrien English mystery series as well as numerous other novels, novellas and short stories. Josh is a two-time Lambda Literary Award Finalist and winner of the 2006 USA BookNews Award for GLBT Fiction

 ABOUT THE BOOK

STRANGE FORTUNE
By Josh Lanyon

Publisher: Blind Eye Books (Dist. Bella Books)
Publication Date: December 1^st, 2009

Price: $14.95 paper (320p)

ISBN 978-1-935560-00-5