Books like New Amsterdam by Elizabeth Bear
Abigail Irene Garrett, once famed for her beauty, now a formidable forensic sorceress, serves a Crown she questions loyalty to. She partners with Sebastien de Ulloa, an ageless figure who has forgotten his origins yet remembers the woman who granted him immortality. Their journey unfolds in a New Amsterdam that has slipped from Dutch to English hands during the Napoleonic wars, in a world where the sun never sets on the British Empire and where the expansion of the American colonies has been halted by Iroquois war magic. Together, they find themselves exiles with the sole hope of delivering justice in this altered colonial landscape.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: Speculative Fiction/Alternate History
Authors: Elizabeth Bear
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