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A Sharp New Wine
The Golem and the Jinni meets The House in the Cerulean Sea in this found family romance starring monsters and Faerie glamour in a working-class speakeasy.
Mickey Wright is a bootlegger and a bard—an inhumanly magical musician—who’s found a home amongst the motley crew that runs the Tooth and Claw speakeasy. But after the latest bootleg run goes horribly wrong and the liquor is confiscated by the cops, the safety of Mickey and his family is threatened.
Until a miracle appears in the form of the bar owner’s brother Jeremiah, who mysteriously disappeared years ago. Turns out he wandered into Faerie, the elven realm that cut itself off from the mortal world and plunged the economy into ruin. But somehow Jeremiah has returned—and he’s brought back a new and seductively intoxicating wine that quickly becomes the Tooth’s signature product.
With the wine drawing the envy of every shady monster and rumrunner in town, everyone from the stunningly beautiful siren reporter to the vampire mob leader to the angelic undercover cop wants in on the secret. Mickey has always been more of a lover than a fighter; but he’ll have to navigate love, trust, and more than one deadly bar brawl if he means to untangle the twisted net of politics, power, and prejudice that make up his city, and which the Tooth and Claw can no longer evade.
Some of them won’t survive. The bar’s seer, Sam, told them so. And he’s never wrong.
Mickey Wright is a bootlegger and a bard—an inhumanly magical musician—who’s found a home amongst the motley crew that runs the Tooth and Claw speakeasy. But after the latest bootleg run goes horribly wrong and the liquor is confiscated by the cops, the safety of Mickey and his family is threatened.
Until a miracle appears in the form of the bar owner’s brother Jeremiah, who mysteriously disappeared years ago. Turns out he wandered into Faerie, the elven realm that cut itself off from the mortal world and plunged the economy into ruin. But somehow Jeremiah has returned—and he’s brought back a new and seductively intoxicating wine that quickly becomes the Tooth’s signature product.
With the wine drawing the envy of every shady monster and rumrunner in town, everyone from the stunningly beautiful siren reporter to the vampire mob leader to the angelic undercover cop wants in on the secret. Mickey has always been more of a lover than a fighter; but he’ll have to navigate love, trust, and more than one deadly bar brawl if he means to untangle the twisted net of politics, power, and prejudice that make up his city, and which the Tooth and Claw can no longer evade.
Some of them won’t survive. The bar’s seer, Sam, told them so. And he’s never wrong.
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Olivia Waite
19 books1,190 followersOlivia Waite writes queer historical romance, science fiction, and fantasy. She is the romance fiction columnist for the New York Times Book Review.
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