Texas Parks & Weirdlife

A Novel

De: Ted Akin

Narrado por: Sara Van Beckum

Marjorie Posey: just your average, everyday weird, outdoorsy girl. While typical government employees have budgets and tax dollars to worry about, rangers with the Texas Parks and Weirdlife spend their days dealing with the likes of jackalopes, leprechauns, and unicorns. When the task of tagging a newborn unicorn threatens to disrupt an evening of microwave pasta and Law & Order reruns, ranger Posey embarks on a Friday afternoon adventure that soon takes a turn for the weird.

Thanks to the intervention of a great white hunter, a group of People for the Ethical Treatment of Unusual Animals, and southern fried faeries, Posey’s evening goes from bad to worse as she is thrust from a West Texas frying pan and into a faerie jail fryer. With the start of the weekend all but ruined, Ranger Marjorie Posey must choose between teaming up with a couple of wayward angels or the bureaucratic nightmare of having to explain the disappearance and loss of a bouncing, baby unicorn.

TEXAS PARKS AND WEIRDLIFE is a HUMOROUS FANTASY NOVEL that takes Richard Kadrey’s THE EVERYTHING BOX, Gaiman and Pratchett’s GOOD OMENS, Vivienne Medrano’s HAZBIN HOTEL, and Tim Dorsey’s FLORIDA ROADKILL in a blender and serves it up in a Texas-sized fiasco of a fantastical comic caper. Follow Texas Parks and Weirdlife ranger Marjorie Posey as she attempts to recover a stolen unicorn with the help of a couple of errant angels: the unflappable Erick and the unhinged Emily. Together, they’ll encounter hippies, hipsters, faeries, great white hunters, more angels, and ranchers on their quest across multiple dimensions and the Texas interstate.

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