Like Our Fathers Before Us

by Annie Reed

Long before men mined gold and silver in the Old West, Beau grew up in a beautiful land in the east filled with magic and light and the joy of living. A beautiful green land Beau’s elvish kin had sworn to protect.

Then men arrived from across the great ocean. Greedy, evil men intent on conquering the New World and enslaving its magic for their own purposes.

 Centuries later, Beau pursues the last of the enslavers who’d fled to the west to escape elvish justice. Always hiding his true nature from the men he encounters along the way, Beau carries out his sworn duty.

Punish the guilty.

Release the innocent.

Destroy the insane.

Even if that means he must destroy his oldest childhood friend.

Part of Unexpected Histories, an Uncollected Anthology.

“Annie Reed is a master short fiction writer.”  — Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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Genres:
urban fantasy

About the Author

Award-winning author Annie Reed describes herself as a desert rat who longs to live by the ocean. Since she hasn’t yet convinced her family to relocate to a nice chunk of beachfront property, she’s done the next best thing—written a series of stories set in a contemporary Pacific Northwest city where magic and reality go hand in hand.

Private investigators Diz and Dee populate Annie’s more lighthearted stories, while denizens of a much rougher neighborhood lurk in her Tales From the Shadows.

A talented and versatile writer whose fantasy, science fiction, and mystery stories have sold to a wide variety of publications, including five of the first seven volumes of Fiction River’s inaugural year.