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Commissioned to locate a rare tome, librarian Irene and her assistant Kai find themselves in roaring 1920s New York, where the city’s prohibition era collides with an uneasy truce of dragons, Fae, and gangsters. Navigating a labyrinth of political intrigue, blackmail, and the library’s own Internal Affairs, the pair must outwit rival factions and powerful draconic rulers before the stakes spiral into war—and jeopardize their careers and lives.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: Fantasy/Historical Fantasy
Authors: Genevieve Cogman
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