Praise for Ysabeau S. Wilce's previous books: This fresh and funky setting is rich with glorious costumes, innovative language, and tantalizing glimpses of history.--Kirkus Reviews, starred review These inter-connected stories are set in an opulent quasi-historical world of magick and high manners called the Republic of Califa. The Republic is a strangely familiar place--a baroque approximation of Gold Rush era-California with...