Meet: Lady Abigail Irene Garrett
Occupation: Detective Crown Investigator
Location: New Amsterdam, New World
Main mode of transportation: carriage
Genre: Steampunk, Fantasy, Mystery, Vampires
Teaser:
Detective Crown Investigator Abigail Irene Garrett paused in the open carpetbag outside the door and drew white kid gloves onto her hands. Then she slipped the pouches drawstringed with ribbons--her housekeeper Mary had cleverly sewn them from linen handkerchiefs--over her shoes, and bound them tight. She shook out her skirts in the hall, and retrieved her silver-tipped ebony wand.
Taking up the lantern, the white beeswax candle flickering only slightly, she went to the corpse's side.
The smell of death was familiar.
-Limerent, page 113
New Amsterdam
by Elizabeth Bear
Published: 2007
Romance steam gauge: light
Description from the amazon:Abigail Irene Garrett drinks too much. She makes scandalous liaisons with inappropriate men, and if in her youth she was a famous beauty, now she is both formidable--and notorious. She is a forensic sorceress, and a dedicated officer of a Crown that does not deserve her loyalty. She has nothing, but obligations.
Sebastien de Ulloa is the oldest creature she has ever known. He was no longer young at the Christian millennium, and that was nine hundred years ago. He has forgotten his birth-name, his birth-place, and even the year in which he was born, if he ever knew it. But he still remembers the woman who made him immortal. He has everything, but a reason to live.
In a world where the sun never set on the British Empire, where Holland finally ceded New Amsterdam to the English only during the Napoleonic wars, and where the expansion of the American colonies was halted by the war magic of the Iroquois, they are exiles in the new world--and its only hope for justice.
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