Jackie Hernandez was a normal teenage girl until she was zapped through a portal to a fantastical world of elves and sylvan and magic and other remarkable people and things. And now that she knows what the rest of the universe looks like, she can’t go back home. Now she’s in her late 20’s, working at a museum, and is still pretty gosh darn normal. Working as a historian in one of the premiere research museums on her current planet of residence, Jackie gets to see ancient history of the connected worlds of The District pass in front of her on a daily basis.
When she’s dragged into a conspiracy about gray market antiquities, she finds herself traipsing across the collected worlds, chasing leads. Only someone else is also chasing her. Good thing she has Anaraxis along, six feel of scales and cybersecurity.
Together, these ladies, from two different worlds learn what their universe has to offer in the worst possible way.
This short novel packs a punch in the worldbuilding department.
-Morrigan G.
This is such a well written cozey mystery the array of characters are vibrant, colorful, some very charming that will draw you in as though you are right with them
-Kat
When Jackie is charged with transporting a strange tablet, she thinks it’ll be a nice, off-world trip with her not-quite-girlfriend, Anaraxis. A mercenary escort certainy adds some weight to the trip. After an encounter with train robbers forces them off in the darkness of the forest, they make an unlikely ally in an injured vampire. When his only just barely human step sister arrives, things only get stranger. Now wrapped up in intergenerational family conflict, Jackie learns that the secrets of the District run deep. And those secrets may be chasing her across the connected worlds.
Barely escaping with their life from vampiric pursuers, Jackie and Anaraxis find themselves dropped onto another world completely, unsure how to get back to civilization.
When they’re brought to an archeological dig, secrets of the artifacts that have haunted their summer so far start to unfold. This sends them on a cross- and inter- world journey not just to get home, but to finally find the bottom of everything once and for all.