TWO SPECTACULAR STANDALONE NOVELS FROM
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ANDREA HAIRSTON!
TWO SPECTACULAR STANDALONE NOVELS FROM AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
ANDREA HAIRSTON!
NOW IN PAPERBACK!
The world is changing. Poison desert eats good farmland. There is magic in the world, but good conjure
is hard to find. This epic fantasy will bleed your mind
with its turns of phrase and leave you aching for the world it burns into being.
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Blues singers, filmmakers, haints, healers, romance, and magic from Georgia to Chicago! Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man are gifted turn-of-the-20th-century vaudeville performers and hoodoo conjurors. Their power and talent are torment and joy, and their search for a place to be who they want is exhilarating, painful, and magical.
Praise for Master of Poisons
“Master of Poisons is sheer, undiluted brilliance. Epic, courageous, unapologetically fierce.”
—Daniel José Older
“Master of Poisons makes me laugh, gasp, and dream of the world we are so desperately holding onto and of a better world yet to come.”
—Sheree Renée Thomas
“Nobody does it better than Andrea Hairston, and if you doubt it, just open Master of Poisons and follow her into the light.”
—Pearl Cleage
“This is the kind of fantasy that expands your mind and warms your heart.”
—Martha Wells
“This is an urgent, gorgeous work.”
—Publishers Weekly starred review