Troubled Graves: An Eververse Novella

Eververse #1.6

by Darby Harn

Superheroes left Break Pointe for dead. Now the dead are taking over.

Kit Baldwin tries to protect her city but it gets harder and harder. The Straw Men, a gang that has long troubled the streets of Break Pointe, presses their advantage in the lawless city. They destroy the advanced engines Kit creates to provide heat and light during the terrible winter, but she quickly discovers it’s about more than forcing people to pay them for power. It’s about obtaining hers. Kit confronts the Straw Men and discovers a secret long buried in the ashes of her town.

TROUBLED GRAVES continues the adventures of Kit Baldwin of EVER THE HERO, a young woman with alien power and human faults.

116 pages, ebook

Published December 15, 2020

About the author

Darby Harn is the author of the SPSFC quarterfinalist Ever The Hero, which Publisher's Weekly called "an entertaining debut uses superpowers as a metaphor to delve into class politics in an alternate America." His short fiction appears in Strange Horizons, Interzone, Shimmer, and other venues.

Reviews

[J.D. Cunegan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Troubled Graves is a worthy addition to the Eververse, a welcome reintroduction to Kit Baldwin and her small, yet tight, band of allies, and a story packed tight with action and tension and rage. Darby Harn has shown repeatedly, though his Eververse books and through the sublime A Country of Eternal Light, that he's capable of tackling difficult, complicated, and heavy emotions -- and in Troubled Graves, that emotion is rage. Palpable, justified, dripping-off-the-page rage. It would feel over the top in the hands of a less adept author, but Harn doesn't fall into that trap, and the result is an engrossing read that "between book" novellas typically fall short of.