What Makes a River: A Tor.Com Original

Deborah Coates

Feb 2011 · Sold by Tor Books

About this ebook

There's a Thing in Lake Michigan and it's after Beth's roommate. Beth wants someone else to take care of it. But when no one steps up, not even the mysterious Paul, who does this kind of thing for a living, Beth realizes that she'll have to do something herself before it's too late.


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Ratings and reviews

I didn't know wtf I was reading but I was immediately hooked and now I want more. Great story, exciting, thrilling and not at all what I expected, none the less it was a fantastic use of time.

About the author

Deborah Coates grew up on a farm in western New York. She has degrees in Animal Science and Agronomy and once helped plant a field of sugar beets in northern Ohio in the rain. She currently lives in central Iowa with a Rottweiler and a German Pinscher. Deb has published stories in Asimov's, Strange Horizons, and SCIFICTION. Her stories have been reprinted in Best American Fantasy 2008, Year's Best Fantasy 6, and Best Paranormal Romance. She recently sold her first novels, the beginnings of a new contemporary rural fantasy series, to Tor. Find her on Twitter and Livejournal.