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Safe Harbour series #2
Faithless
Ten years ago Rab learned the secret of the planet he calls home – and lost the young girl he’d vowed to protect; traded for a sweater, a set of gloves and a second-hand pair of boots. Since then, he’s wandered the barren surface alone searching for her, returning to the tunnels only when hunger, exhaustion or the inconstant seasons offer him no choice. When a freak accident occurs during the harvest, the death of an old friend finds Rab agreeing to abandon his search and guide Fin, now a tunnel-dweller, and Cloud, a former captive of the Top-siders, back to his old village to deliver a macabre and precious cargo. Although reconciled to honouring his word, Rab is convinced that their reckless journey south will tell him nothing he doesn’t already know and that the secret he has dutifully guarded all these years is in no danger of being exposed. He is wrong.
224 pages, Paperback
Published April 21, 2017
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About the author
Shaune Lafferty Webb
8 books24 followersShaune’s father was an amateur astronomer and her eldest brother an avid science fiction reader, so perhaps it was inevitable that she developed an early enthusiasm for writing speculative fiction.
After obtaining a degree in geology from the University of Queensland, Shaune subsequently worked in geochemical laboratories, exploration companies, and, while living in the United States, at a multinational scientific institute involved in exploration beneath the ocean floors. A decade after returning to Australia, armed with a life-long addiction to SciFi and a broad scope of real-world research and editing experience, Shaune returned to her original passion, the writing of speculative fiction. Her short stories have appeared in AntipodeanSF, The Nautilus Engine, and Blue Crow Magazine.
‘Bus Stop on a Strange Loop’, Shaune’s first novel, was published by Winterbourne Publishing in July 2011 followed by 'Balanced in an Angel's Eye' in 2012.
Her third novel, 'Cold Faith', the first in The Safe Harbour Chronicle series, was released by Hague Publishing in May 2015 and 'Faithless', the second in the trilogy, in April 2017. 'The Unforgotten', the final instalment in The Safe Harbour Chronicle is scheduled for publication in 2019.
In 2018, 'Once a Dog', a furry fiction novel, was published by Jaffa Books; the novel has been nominated for a 2018 Ursa Major Award in the category of Best Novel.
Shaune lives in Brisbane with her research scientist husband, a slightly eccentric border collie and an extremely frenetic terrier.
After obtaining a degree in geology from the University of Queensland, Shaune subsequently worked in geochemical laboratories, exploration companies, and, while living in the United States, at a multinational scientific institute involved in exploration beneath the ocean floors. A decade after returning to Australia, armed with a life-long addiction to SciFi and a broad scope of real-world research and editing experience, Shaune returned to her original passion, the writing of speculative fiction. Her short stories have appeared in AntipodeanSF, The Nautilus Engine, and Blue Crow Magazine.
‘Bus Stop on a Strange Loop’, Shaune’s first novel, was published by Winterbourne Publishing in July 2011 followed by 'Balanced in an Angel's Eye' in 2012.
Her third novel, 'Cold Faith', the first in The Safe Harbour Chronicle series, was released by Hague Publishing in May 2015 and 'Faithless', the second in the trilogy, in April 2017. 'The Unforgotten', the final instalment in The Safe Harbour Chronicle is scheduled for publication in 2019.
In 2018, 'Once a Dog', a furry fiction novel, was published by Jaffa Books; the novel has been nominated for a 2018 Ursa Major Award in the category of Best Novel.
Shaune lives in Brisbane with her research scientist husband, a slightly eccentric border collie and an extremely frenetic terrier.
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May 14, 2017
Once again at the entrance to the tunnels and ready to descend, Rab was exhausted from his search for the young girl, now a young woman who had gone missing all that time ago. He had made a promise to Gift, and his determination to find her and keep that promise was what kept him returning top-side regularly, after only a few days rest plus the replenishing of his food supplies among the tunnel-dwellers.
Stitch and Fin were the brothers Rab had arrived with ten years prior, and they had remained, becoming tunnel-dwellers while Rab searched. Cloud was another friend who’d been rescued from the Top-siders; she was an expert in the farming of ‘shrooms below ground – the tunnel-dwellers staple diet. But Rab had only been “home” for a day when a tragic accident occurred at the ‘shroom plantation – when Rab discovered what Fin wanted to do he was angry. But he agreed to guide them back to their old village; the home they’d left to find a better life…
Their journey was long; the landscape vast and lonely – their arrival at the village confirmed Rab’s original conviction that there would be no one there. And it looked like it had been abandoned for a long time. But Rab was shocked to notice evidence of a fire – had there been someone there recently? Was it top-siders or bounty hunters? Or someone else entirely?
Faithless is the 2nd in the Safe Harbour series by Aussie author Shaune Lafferty Webb and follows on nicely from the first (Cold Faith). Rab’s character has matured, but with his continuing search for Gift, part of his psych has stalled. Cloud is a great stabilising character and adds to the intrigue and emotion of the story. I thoroughly enjoyed Faithless and will be looking forward to the third in the series. Highly recommended.
With thanks to Hague Publishing for my digital copy to read and review.
Stitch and Fin were the brothers Rab had arrived with ten years prior, and they had remained, becoming tunnel-dwellers while Rab searched. Cloud was another friend who’d been rescued from the Top-siders; she was an expert in the farming of ‘shrooms below ground – the tunnel-dwellers staple diet. But Rab had only been “home” for a day when a tragic accident occurred at the ‘shroom plantation – when Rab discovered what Fin wanted to do he was angry. But he agreed to guide them back to their old village; the home they’d left to find a better life…
Their journey was long; the landscape vast and lonely – their arrival at the village confirmed Rab’s original conviction that there would be no one there. And it looked like it had been abandoned for a long time. But Rab was shocked to notice evidence of a fire – had there been someone there recently? Was it top-siders or bounty hunters? Or someone else entirely?
Faithless is the 2nd in the Safe Harbour series by Aussie author Shaune Lafferty Webb and follows on nicely from the first (Cold Faith). Rab’s character has matured, but with his continuing search for Gift, part of his psych has stalled. Cloud is a great stabilising character and adds to the intrigue and emotion of the story. I thoroughly enjoyed Faithless and will be looking forward to the third in the series. Highly recommended.
With thanks to Hague Publishing for my digital copy to read and review.
May 2, 2017
Reviewer: Danielle de Valera, author 'Dropping Out: a tree change novel-in-stories'
I really enjoyed this book. Even though it’s the middle book in a trilogy, it stands alone perfectly. You don’t have to have read the first book to understand what’s going on. Lafferty Webb’s one of those writers who’s hard to describe. There’s always a sense of mystery in her work, a mystery that seems to be conveyed between the lines rather than in them, and this sense of mystery gives an extra dimension to everything she writes. The style of Faithless is more conversational than in Bus Stop on a Strange Loop, her first work, but it suits the piece. The plot has some lovely, imaginative developments, and the ending left me keen to read the next and last book in the series. A good read.
I really enjoyed this book. Even though it’s the middle book in a trilogy, it stands alone perfectly. You don’t have to have read the first book to understand what’s going on. Lafferty Webb’s one of those writers who’s hard to describe. There’s always a sense of mystery in her work, a mystery that seems to be conveyed between the lines rather than in them, and this sense of mystery gives an extra dimension to everything she writes. The style of Faithless is more conversational than in Bus Stop on a Strange Loop, her first work, but it suits the piece. The plot has some lovely, imaginative developments, and the ending left me keen to read the next and last book in the series. A good read.
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