Prodigies

 
by Bob Armstrong
Book Cover: Prodigies
Part of the Prodigies series:
  • Prodigies
Editions:ebook, Paperback

In a land ruled by gunfire and greed, three gifted souls will rewrite the legend of the West...

“We’re not freaks. We’re prodigies.”

In a world on the cusp of change, three extraordinary teens are bound by fate.

A street urchin with uncanny eyes and hands. An orphan girl who can speak to animals.A sharecropper’s son who sees numbers in everything.

Their gifts set them apart—and make them targets. From the crime-ridden alleys of New York’s Five Points to the lawless sprawl of Deadwood, their paths collide with forces that threaten to shape the future of America itself.

A ruthless mining baron dreams of remaking the nation in his image. A messianic wolf hunter vows to wipe out the predators he believes haunt the land. And in the shadows, a street gang led by a muscle-bound thug and his deceptively “kindly” benefactor waits to strike.

As the gold rush fuels fortunes and bloodshed, these prodigies must navigate circuses, rail camps, and the terror of night riders in a country torn between progress and greed, labor and capital. To survive, they’ll have to decide whether their powers are a curse to hide—or the only hope for a new kind of future.

Part Western odyssey, part steampunk fable, Prodigies captures the grit, wonder, and danger of an America on the edge of transformation.

Published:
Publisher: Mad Cat
Genres:
Steampunk, Western, YA
Tags:
children's books, historical fiction, steampunk, western books, young adult books

About the Author

Bob Armstrong

Bob Armstrong is a novelist and freelance writer from Winnipeg. His novel Prodigies (Five Star/Gale), focusing on three uncannily gifted teens in 1877 Deadwood, won the 2022 Margaret Laurence Prize for Fiction in the Manitoba Book Awards and his writing has appeared in literary magazines on both sides of the Medicine Line and in anthologies of comedy, speculative fiction, travel writing and drama. An avid hiker and history buff, he has wandered western trails from south of Tombstone, Arizona, to north of the Yukon Territory’s Tombstone Mountains. His travel misadventures and musings can be found on Substack @wanderingwriterbobarmstrong and at www.bobarmstrong.ca.

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