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Book & Author Details:

The Skeleton Faerie

by A.P. Mobley

(Children of the Death Gods, #1)

Publication date: November 8th 2025

Genres: Adult, Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, Mythology

Synopsis:

Faerie folklore meets a nuclear postapocalypse in this dark mythological fantasy woven with secrets, treachery, and star-crossed love.

Ninety-nine years after the Nuclear War of 1989, twenty-one-year-old Gus Brandon should only be interested in the survival of humanity and the expansion of his compound. But he’s obsessed with legends from the distant past, superstitions of an expired people.

While searching forbidden ruins for the scraps of stories lost to time, he stumbles upon a mysterious young woman covered in scars. Her name is Saoirse, and their meeting sets off a bloody chain of events—one in which Gus discovers that the folklore he loves just might be real, and that it’s tied to mankind in ways he could have never imagined.

Soon the lines between myth and reality blur, as do the lines between realms.

Gus will have to rely on his knowledge—and Saoirse—to survive the horrors awaiting him… in this world and the next.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243734413-the-skeleton-faerie

Excerpt

When Gus and his teammates were a mere mile from the compound, the sun had
almost finished setting, and the temperature had dropped significantly. A breeze grazed the
back of his bare neck and arms, sending chills through his body. In every direction, all that was
visible were trees, the only noises those of his and his companions’ boots and their animals’
hooves crunching against shriveled grass and fallen leaves. Occasionally, crows—some of them
genetically altered, their feathers stained a pinkish color—flapped from branch to branch, their
harsh caws piercing the quiet.
Maybe it was because of the extensive amount of folklore he’d been reading, but these
days, the dark played tricks on Gus’s eyes, making him see monsters when nothing was there.
Nothing could be there, after all, as the stories he so loved weren’t real.
And even if there was a chance that they were real (and he knew there wasn’t), his
compound was on the western side of a mountain range called the Black Hills, located within
the fallen United States of America—far, far away from the places those magical tales took
place.
Yet he still found himself imagining all manner of malevolent faeries prowling the woods
at night. He saw them skulking in the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
In masses of collapsed cottonwoods, he imagined there were redcaps hiding, plotting to
slaughter any stray travelers passing by.
In murders of crows, he imagined there were sluagh flying, scouring the forest floor for
the next unlucky fellow whose soul they might devour.
In fast-moving streams, he imagined there were kelpies biding their time, anticipating
the moment a person came close enough to drown and eat.
Thankfully, the logical side of his brain knew he had nothing to worry about—even as far
as nonfictional threats went. The worst anyone on scavenge-duty had encountered in the last
year was a couple of mountain lions and some rattlesnakes, and although he and his
teammates had never run into anything like that, they knew how to take care of it as easily as
the other people of the compound had: with bullets.
No one left the compound without a loaded gun and extra ammo.
Gus and his team were safe.
The sun dipped below the horizon, and if it weren’t for the smog blanketing the sky (a
lingering effect of the Nuclear War, which the elders said should clear up any decade now), the
moon and stars might have lit up the night. The temperature fell even further, clouds of breath
filling the air in front of Gus’s face and fogging up his glasses.

“Guess we should have packed our coats,” Nancy remarked as she walked in front of
Gus, guiding her pig along. She began to shiver. “I hate when the weather gets like this. Hot
during the day, cold at night.”
Twigs cracked to the left. Hand flying to his holster, Gus looked that way, his goat
bleating, Nancy’s pig squealing.
A flash of movement in the trees, there and gone in an instant.
“What the . . . ?” Oliver tossed his bundle of birds over his shoulder and retrieved his
flashlight, his teeth chattering. He and Adam stood several feet to Gus’s right. “Did you guys see
that?”
Adam drew his handgun. “Probably a mountain lion. We’re almost home, so just keep
your eyes peeled and your weapons ready.”
“Maybe speed it up a little too,” Gus added, and he and Nancy pulled out their
handguns. The team continued toward the compound.
Not five minutes had passed before more branches snapped behind them. Again, the
goat bleated, and the pig squealed.
Everyone swung around, preparing to shoot. Oliver shined his flashlight into the trees.
The glow revealed a creature that made Gus’s skin prickle with goose bumps.

Purchase:

Amazon: https://amzn.to/4aCP2LR

B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-skeleton-faerie-a-p-mobley/1147646012?ean=2940180891112

iBooks: https://books.apple.com/ca/book/the-skeleton-faerie/id6738967348

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-skeleton-faerie

AUTHOR BIO:

A. P. Mobley is the Halloween-loving, rock-music-obsessed author of dark fantasy inspired by mythology. She doesn’t only write about her favorite myths, folktales, and fairy tales in books, though; she discusses them on her podcast, Myths (& Folktales & Fairy tales), as well as on her blog and newsletter. She grew up in Wyoming and Nebraska and currently lives in South Dakota, and when she’s not up to her elbows in research for her next project, she can be found consuming dangerous amounts of coffee, reading speculative fiction, or rewatching The Good Place.

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