We’re thrilled to share the cover of Hache Pueyo’s first full-length novel, Tyrant in the Cracks. A dark fantasy of time rifts and what-ifs, Tyrant in the Cracks is forthcoming March 16, 2027 from Tor Books.
In a tropical island country brimming with magic, cracks appear in any surface, visible only to those with a natural and trained talent for the occult. Professor Cícero Dangeris—ascetic, beautiful, disciplined—is among the very few, and together with his quiet assistant Eco, he embarks on a journey to track these fissures and study their secrets.
The cracks show echoes to another timeline, one in which the brutal military dictatorship that oppressed the island never ended. There, a puppet general commands the nation, controlled by another version of Dangeris—debauched, excessive, hedonistic—who is obsessed with finding an elusive mirror of a girl he has seen in these fissures since childhood.
As they travel the island via an underwater train, new realities appear, proving how easily people and countries can change. What Dangeris finds in those images are his own secrets, from the past he tries to hide to the desires he would rather repress, and there’s only one common denominator between all his parallel lives: Eco herself.
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Hache Pueyo is an Argentine-Brazilian writer and translator. She won an Otherwise Fellowship for her work with gender in speculative fiction, and her work has appeared as H. Pueyo in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, among others. She is the author of A Study in Ugliness & Outras Histórias, But Not Too Bold, and the Nebula-nominated Cabaret in Flames.
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