DarkWinter Press New Release: Ghost Bride of Gum San by JF Garrard

DarkWinter Press is thrilled to announce our latest release, the fantasy novel Ghost Bride of Gum San by JF Garrard, available now on Amazon in paperback and e-version for Kindle! You can buy it here!

About Ghost Bride of Gum San:

In 1869, Pearl Ming Ju Wong and her sister, skilled yokai demon hunters, are sold to tong gangs in San Francisco by their gambling-addicted father. During their journey to America, they are thrown overboard as ghost brides for dead miners. Pearl is rescued by the Asgard alliance who task her with retrieving a piece of the legendary Crystal Armour from an all-girls convent in exchange for her freedom.

However, she secretly plans to use this mission to gain information about her lost sister through a deal with an octopus yokai. This sets Pearl on a path where she must choose between saving her sister or protecting the people of Gum San from destruction. This thrilling xuanhuan adventure is a fascinating blend of Eastern and Western concepts rooted in Chinese Taoism and European Christianity.

Advance Praise for Ghost Bride of Gum San:

“JF Garrard’s Ghost Bride of Gum San is a spellbinding saga where the fearless Pearl Ming Ju Wong—sold as a ghost bride and cast into the chaos of 1869 America—faces vengeful spirits, forbidden secrets, and impossible choices in a journey that blends Chinese mythology, Western intrigue, and heart-pounding adventure.  A captivating page-turner from the first page to the last.”

-Allan Cho, Executive Director of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW), co-founder of the LiterASIAN Writers Festival 

“Combining historical fantasy and diasporic drama, JF Garrard weaves an intricate tapestry of memorable characters, a riveting plot, and a fully realized world.”

-Vincent Ternida, Author of Seven Muses of Harry Salcedo

“Ghost Bride of Gum San opens up for the readers parallel worlds when humans turn into yokais, shapeshifters, and monsters. JF Garrard’s descriptive language and colourful imagination weaves together an intricate story of family ties, code of friendship, the perpetual search for belonging, good versus evil. It’s compulsively readable.”

-Purabi Sinha Das, Author of Moonlight - The Journey Begins, What Will it be This Time, Twenty two for 22

About The Author:

JF Garrard is an award-winning speculative fiction writer, editor, and podcaster. Her literary podcast, The Artsy Raven is on Feed Spot’s lists of Top 60 Literature Podcasts & Top 10 Canadian Literature Podcasts. She is an editor and writer of speculative fiction (Immersion, The Undead Sorceress), as well as children’s books (I am a Marble!). She also serves as the President of the Canadian Authors Association’s Toronto Branch, and Deputy Editor for Ricepaper Magazine. Her portfolio of books and short fiction is listed on jfgarrard.com.