Agent: Kate McKean, Howard Morhaim Literary. Scenes of violence are gory but not gratuitous, and Roux will leave readers. and several titles for adults, including Salvaged and Reclaimed. This entertaining, deeply disturbing, and clever story hits all the right notes for those who like a little horror with their SF. A positive rating based on 3 book reviews for Salvaged by Madeleine Roux. Madeleine Roux is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Asylum. Scenes of violence are gory but not gratuitous, and Roux will leave readers wondering whether the real source of evil is in human minds and hearts. Stranded aboard the Brigantine, Rosalyn and Edison try to outwit the other crew members and Mother, while looking for a way to stop Foxfire from spreading and wondering whether her father’s business is behind Foxfire and other horrors. They are infected with a mysterious fungus, Foxfire, that has taken root in their minds, convincing them that it is their mother and that Rosalyn needs to join them. Aboard the Brigantine, she meets Edison Aries, the captain, and his undead crew. When caught drinking on the job, she’s given one more chance: clean up the Brigantine, a research ship whose crew is dead. In a spacefaring future, Rosalyn Devar is a xenobiologist who takes a job as a salvager-janitor of dead space crews-to get away from her father, his business, and the man who hurt her. This taut thriller/mystery from Roux, best known for YA horror ( House of Furies, etc.), pits a girl on the run from her past against a parasitic monster named Mother.
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