Rainbow Warrior

Rainbow Warrior is a dark, harrowing work of queer horror that merges literary Gothic with eco-horror. It is a story of grief and greed. More than a year has passed since the fire that destroyed Dylan's home and killed the rest of their family. Grief has pursued Dylan ever since. Max, Dylan's first love, took what he could from them while they were at their most vulnerable. He would have taken everything, but the fire gave Dylan an inexplicable strength to escape, and the two of them left Rotherwell to start over across the Atlantic. Max does not give up his possessions easily, though. He is closing in on Dylan and means to drag them back to Rotherwell to settle unfinished business. Dylan cannot go back. Before leaving, Dylan saw a creature scuttling among the charred bricks and broken window frames of the family home, and recognized it just as they recognized the burning sensation under their skin. The creature told Dylan that this burning was caused by greed, the same greed that drove Dylan's father to so much violence. Fearing that their father might inflict more harm from beyond the grave, Dylan swore never to return. Now lost in the grey of London, Dylan hopes the constant rain will cool the burning and that distance will keep them safe. But a border cannot contain horror, and one generation cannot contain trauma, genetic quirks, and contaminants. The fire was only the beginning. The book is twisted, powerful, and darkly liberating. It looks at both supernatural and real-world horrors that come from greed and from the ways people manipulate one another and the natural world.