Winter Tide (The Innsmouth Legacy)
by Ruthanna Emrys
Buy on Amazon"Two decades ago the U.S. government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to a desert prison, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god, Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, emerging without a past or a future. Now it's 1949, and the government that stole Aphra's life needs her help"--
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"Ruthanna Emrys takes on a formidable challenge in Winter Tide: Reworking the world of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos in a way that will appeal to Lovecraft fans, readers who don’t know Lovecraft from Love Story, and people who wouldn’t touch Lovecraft’s work with a 10-foot tentacle, given his well-known and despicable thoughts on anyone who wasn’t a white Christian man. She succeeds mightily with this new take on “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” salted with tears and ocean waves."
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