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Harper Voyager

The Improvisers

By Nicole Glover - Published 2024

Genres:

Set in 1931 during Prohibition, this third in the Murder and Magic series boasts a unique fantasy world where magically charmed curios are highly ...Read Review

Bindle Punk Bruja

By Desideria Mesa - Published 2022

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

In 1920s Kansas City, a young woman with two identities and two names—Luna, who is Latinx, and Rosa, who passes as white—...Read Review

Carved from Stone and Dream: A Los Nefilim Novel

By T. Frohock - Published 2020

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

In 1939, the Spanish Civil War is raging. The Los Nefilim is in retreat, heading across the Pyrenees Mountains to a safe haven in ...Read Review

Westside Saints (A Gilda Carr Tiny Mystery)

By W.M. Akers - Published 2020

Genres:

Historical Fantasy Mystery/Crime

The sequel to Westside, Westside Saints is part alternate history, urban fantasy, mystery, and time-slip―a frenetic roller coaster ride through 1922 Prohibition-era Manhattan. ...Read Review

Westside

By W.M. Akers - Published 2019

Genres:

Alternate History

Akers imagines a fence thirteen miles long dividing the Manhattan of 1921 into two parts: eastside and westside. The eastside appears to be all ...Read Review