Miss Violet and the Great War: A Strangely Beautiful Novel

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Leanna Renee Hieber's debut novel, republished by Tor Books as Strangely Beautiful, won two Prism Awards and established her as one of the founders of gaslamp fantasy-tales of the spiritual and supernatural set in the Victorian Era. Miss Violet and the Great War begins in Victorian times and sweeps readers forward to the incredible tragedy of the First World War, when millions died in the trenches and on the battlefields. Violet Rychman has been gifted from birth with the ability to see and hear ghosts...and with terrible visions of a future conflict. When war erupts, Violet knows that it is time for her to take up her life's great mission-to attempt to shorten the war and to save lives by using the supernatural abilities she was born with, and the new powers bestowed on her by the ancient Muses. One woman, alone, trying to stop an international conflict. It seems impossible. But Violet has allies she hasn't even met yet.

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Praise for Leanna Renee Hieber's Strangely Beautiful books:

"Tender, poignant, exquisitely written." --New York Times bestselling author C.L. Wilson

"A strangely beautiful tale indeed! An ethereal, lyrical story that combines myth, spiritualism and the gothic in lush prose and sweeping passion."--Kathryn Smith, USA Today bestselling author

"A delightfully lush and richly imagined tale. Transcendent."--Fresh Fiction

"I cannot recommend this book, this series or this author enough."--True-Blood.Net

"Strikingly rich, dark, and beautiful imagery."--Alethea Kontis in Orson Scott Card's Galactic Medicine Show

"A secretive, gothic, paranormal world...a character who will resonate with anyone who has found the beauty in being different."--Booklist

"Rich in conceits as anything from Alan Moore, Hieber's novel mixes action and the emotional lives of its characters into a fascinating stew. Anyone who enjoyed Paul Cornell's London Falling will certainly cozy up to Hieber's parallel depiction of questioning savants and heroes versus the forces of anarchy and despair."--Paul Di Filippo in Asimov's Science Fiction on The Eterna Files

"Smart, boundlessly creative gaslamp fantasy. [Hieber] blends historical fact and paranormal fiction with ease, creating a world that is lush and fascinatingly strange."--RT Book Reviews (4 stars) on The Eterna Files

Author Bio

Leanna Renee Hieber is the author of Strangely Beautiful and Perilous Prophecy, as well as the Eterna Files trilogy. Rarely seen out of Victorian garb, Hieber has won several Prism Awards for her gothic novels and was a finalist for the Daphne Maurier Award. She regularly leads ghost tours in New York City and prides herself on her knowledge of the city's haunts.