cover art by Five Rivers’ Art Director Jeff Minkevics

The novel, a debut for MacGregor, is set in a quasi-Spanish Inquisition world. When Miriam Medina and her father are accused by the Inquisition of murdering a high priest, Miriam knows justice is impossible. Their accuser, the Grand Inquisitor, is in fact, the real murderer. Miriam’s only hope is to resort to her long dead mother’s magical legacy: the resurrection of the dead through a magical tattoo.

Susan MacGregor

Susan MacGregor is an editor with On Spec magazine and edited the anthologies Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales, (Edge Books) and Divine Realms (Ravenstone Press). Her short fiction has appeared in a number of periodicals and anthologies, including A Method to the Madness, (Five Rivers) and Urban Green Man (Edge Books).

Currently, she’s revising a non-fiction book, The ABC’s of How NOT to Write Speculative Fiction (Third Printing), as well as the third book in The Tattooed Witch Trilogy: The Tattooed Rose. Book 2, The Tattooed Seer, is expected to release some time in 2014.

Susan keeps a blog at http://suzenyms.blogspot.ca.