My Brother's Keeper

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THE TRUE STORY OF THE BRONT SISTERS AS ONLY TIM POWERS COULD WRITE IT.

This is a ghost story. It is a story about werewolves, and things that go bump in the night. It is a story of an ill-fated land, the pathless moors of Northern England so well chronicled in Wuthering Heights. And it is the story of a real family whose destiny it is to deal with this darkly glamorous and dangerous world.

When young Emily Bront helps a wounded man she finds at the foot of an ancient pagan shrine in the remote Yorkshire moors, her life becomes contentiously entwined with his. He is Alcuin Curzon, embittered member of a sect working to eradicate the resurgent plague of lycanthropy in Europe and northern England.

But Emilys father, curate of the Haworth village church, is responsible for having unwittingly brought a demonic werewolf god to Yorkshire forty years agoand it is taking possession of Emilys beloved but foolish and dissolute brother. Curzon must regard Emilys family as a dire threat.

In spite of being at deadly odds, Emily and Curzon find themselves thrown together in fighting werewolves, confronting pagan gods, even saving each other from the lures of moorland demons. And in a final battle that sweeps from the haunted village of Haworth to a monstrous shrine far out on the moors, the two of them must be reluctant allies against an ancient power that seems likely to take their souls as well as their lives.

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Tim Powers won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novelsLast CallandDeclare.Declarealso received the International Horror Guild Award. His novelOn Stranger Tidesinspired the Monkey Island video game series and was sold to Disney for the movie franchise installmentPirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.His bookThe AnubisGateswon the Philip K. Dick Award and is considered a modern science fiction classic and a progenitor of the steampunk genre. Powers won the Dick Award again for straight science fiction post-apocalypse novelDinner at DeviantsPalace.Many of his novels, such asLast CallandAlternate Routes,are so-called secret histories, which use real historical events in which supernatural and metaphysical elements influence the the story in weird and compelling manners. Powers grew up in SouthernCalifornia and studiedEnglish at Cal State Fullerton, where he met frequent collaborators James Blaylock and K.W. Jeter, as well as renowned science fiction author Philip K. Dick, who became a close friend and mentor. Powers is a practicing Catholic who claims Stories are more effective, and more truly represent the writers actual convictions, when they manifest themselves without the writer's consciousassistance. I concern myself with my plots, but I let my subconsciousworry about my themes.Powers still resides in Southern California with his wife, Serena.