
Genre:
Fantasy
Themes:
Coming of Age
Disaster
Found Family
Historical
Magic
Saving the World
Heat Level:
Sweet (kissing, holding hands, etc., but no other on-the-page physical intimacy)
Archetypes:
Fashion Designer / Dressmaker / Tailor
Housekeeper / Servant / Maid
Magician
Geographic Location:
Continental Europe
Setting:
Historical
Kingdom / Realm
Shop / Gallery
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Questioning
Protagonist Identity:
Black / African American
Floodtide
The Alpennia Series, Book 4
By Heather Rose Jones
Can a laundry maid and a dressmaker's daugher save the city from plague?
The streets are a perilous place for a young laundry maid dismissed without a character for indecent acts. Roz knew the end of the path for a country girl alone in the city of Rotenek. A desperate escape in the night brings her to the doorstep of Dominique the dressmaker and the hope of a second chance beyond what she could have imagined. Roz’s apprenticeship with the needle, under the patronage of the royal thaumaturgist, wasn’t supposed to include learning magic, but Celeste, the dressmaker’s daughter, draws Roz into the mysterious world of the charm-wives. When floodwaters and fever sweep through the lower city, Celeste’s magical charms could bring hope and healing to the forgotten poor of Rotenek, but only if Roz can claim the help of some unlikely allies.
Set in the magical early 19th century world of Alpennia, Floodtide tells an independent tale that interweaves with the adventures.
A Novel of Alpennia.