#15 Spring's Arcana by Lilith Saintcrow

Nat will do anything her mom asks her to as she is in the hospice. She goes to see an old woman in a skyscraper and agrees to find something that her mother took long ago and hid. In exchange the old woman will help her mother get out of the hospice. But Nat soon realizes that her mom kept much from her besides who her father was. Gods and goddesses live among us and maybe Nat’s mom may have been one. She is told to attend a party and that night Nat is dropped headfirst into a world that she never knew about and must survive to finish the quest if she is going to save her mom.   The people she meets are disbelieving that her mother would have kept her in the dark and yet a few lend her a helping hand on the way while she she travels with an unreliable partner that wants to eat her as much as wants her to finish the quest so he can take what she is sent after. The ending is a stopping point on the quest but it isn’t finished and will conclude with the second book.  At least we don’t have to wait long at all to find out if Nat finishes her goal.

 

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