From Bobbie Sellers@3:633/10 to All on Wed Oct 29 15:15:58 2025
"Direct Descendant" by Tanya Huff ? 2025
Published by DAW Books. $29.00 US/$39.00 Canadian
328 pages but the story is only 327 pages.
I got my copy at the SFPL-Main.
Well this is about 2 direct descendants but we don't know
that one is until nearly the end of the story.
In the 1830 a group of men made a deal with the Dark
and were sacrificed. The deal was to have no problems with
the silver mine at Lake Argen which they had discovered.
Special powers are given to 4 of the Direct Descendants.
At current time a direct descendant of the original group
is assigned to be on the spot at an overlook. Also on hand
is a young man who stabs himself in the foot and is sucked
into the earth.
Shortly thereafter the rich grandmother of the man hires
an out of work English teacher to investigate and the story
takes off. Huff has a sense of humor as the character is
reading a Lesbian romance on her first night in Lake Argen
in a story which in large part is a Lesbian romance.
I enjoyed the story very much but the Lesbian sex is
not closely described though the romance is.