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A city of others at the heart of the 1920's, complete with bittersweet romance and lively mythology teeming beneath the gritty New York City streets.
St. Martin's Press
May 2010
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Featuring: Zephyr Hollis; Amir
288 pages ISBN: 0312648065 EAN: 9780312648060 Trade Size
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Imagining vampires at the heart of the social struggles of 1920s, Moonshine blends a tempestuous romance with dramatic historical fiction, populated by a lively mythology inhabiting the gritty New York City streets Zephyr Hollis is an underfed, overzealous social activist who teaches night school to the underprivileged of the Lower East Side. Strapped for cash, Zephyr agrees to help a student, the mysterious Amir, who proposes she use her charity worker cover to bring down a notorious vampire mob boss. What he doesnβt tell her is why. Soon enough sheβs tutoring a child criminal with an angelic voice, dodging vampires high on a new blood-based street drug, and trying to determine the real reason behind Amirβs requestβnot to mention attempting to resist (often unsuccessfully) his dark, inhuman charm.
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