Queen of No Tomorrows — Matt Maxwell

LOS ANGELES, THE EIGHTIES. Librarian Cait forges occult books in her spare time. But her latest has developed a life all its own. Cait MacReady spends her days in the UCLA library, special collections, restoring old books and saving them from the ravages of time. By night, she works her real job, making copies of antique and occult texts. But don't call them forgeries. She only gives customers exactly what they want.When her ex-lover, now business partner, shows up on behalf of some customers who want a book that isn't written yet, Cait gets suspicious. When she discovers they're from the organization No Tomorrows, she gets scared. And when she finds out that their leader, the enigmatic figure called the Queen, wants a book that only Cait has, she begins to wonder what's real and what she's manufactured on her own.Cait's latest creation, the Smoking Codex, is a work of complete fiction and all her own, nothing but vodka-fueled occult nonsense and heartfelt desire. It's a fake -- no history, no power.Or is it? This book takes on a life of its own, and the police get involved as people start to die. Now Cait must somehow manage to stop a thing that has already happened: the book's secret god is already known.And its name has been spoken.REVIEWS: "LA noir goes weird and eerie in Queen of No Tomorrows. You might think you're merely faking an ancient text for profit, but the power of the Word is real, and its truth will likely slither from the shadows of your imagination and bite you. Intriguing and finely written.” Jamie Delano (author of Hellblazer)"A dark tour of our most sun-drenched city, led by a woman unlike any other. The prose positively crackles with dread -- I couldn't put it down!" Corinna Bechko (author of Invisible Republic and Heathentown)