Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of Velvet Was the Night, Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade, Shadow, and many other books. She has won the Locus and British Fantasy awards for her work as a novelist and the World Fantasy Award as an editor. In her historical science fiction novel The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (Del Rey), we meet Carlota Moreau, a young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict of the Yucatán peninsula. She is the only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman. Montgomery Laughton is an overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. He’s an outcast who assists Dr. Moreau with his experiments, financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas and plentiful coffers. And then there are The Hybrids: The fruits of the doctor’s labor, destined to obey their creator blindly and remain in the shadows. It’s a motley group of part human, part animal monstrosities. All of them live in a perfectly balanced and static world. But the arrival of Eduardo Lizalde, the charming and careless son of Dr. Moreau’s patron, will unwittingly begin a dangerous chain reaction between passion and secrets.
