Heads or Tails
ISBN: 978-1-0685441-0-1 / 978-1-0685441-1-8
Page count: 464 / 410
Publisher: RanPublishesBooks (RPB)
Language: English
Dimensions: PB 5x8 / HB 6x9
Cover design: Fanziska Stern, @Coverdungeonrabbit
Publicaton date: 26th September, 2025
Content copyright: S. A-Benstead
FICTION / Gothic
FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological / Internal narrative
FICTION / Alternative History
FICTION / Historical / 19th Century / General
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"IF FATE HAS A PURPOSE FOR YOU, IT'S BEST NOT TO DENY HER. ONLY HOPE SHE SHOWS GRACE."
The allure of helping discover Darwin's "missing link"--on an island thousands of miles from his more recent sins--seems like an opportunity too good for Nathaniel to pass up. But what he finds in Sumatra has him questioning a new reality, as well as what it truly means to survive.
Almost three years later, when Nathaniel returns to London, Charles VonTruton begins taking steps to counter the storm raging on his friend's silent homecoming. Yet when a body is pulled from the Thames, and Nathaniel's involvement brings him to the attention of Simon and The Yard, the three men are cast into a cycle of wills.
But not everything can be controlled, and not everyone can be saved. When prophecies are uncovered, and blood is spilled in the name of a Broken God, perhaps their fates were never truly their own.
Told in 3rd person limited across three points of view, and set between 1887 and 1890, Heads or Tails combines history, humanity and the supernatural, to weave a narrative of haunting revelation into the deepest corners of the mind.
