Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson

I had the idea for the first section first, which began life as a novelette. How did the premise come together for you? But breaking out of the business while the country is on the brink of joining World War II sure as hell won’t be easy. He’s a police informant with paranormal powers that allow him to see future threats against the people he touches. After years of contract killing with lethal knives, she wants out of the business when she gets back together with her ex-boyfriend Dev Patil. In Trouble the Saints, Phyllis LeBlanc is a juju assassin who passes for white in an alternate 1940s New York City. A native of Washington, DC, Johnson is currently based in Mexico City, where she received a master’s degree in Mesoamerican studies and now plays in a bossa nova band. Her follow up YA novel, Love is the Drug, won the Andre Norton Award in 2015. Her debut YA novel, The Summer Prince, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Series: The Tales of Gorlen VizenfirtheĪlaya Dawn Johnson has been recognized for her short fiction and YA novels, winning the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novelette for “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i,” which also appears in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (2015), guest edited by Joe Hill.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.

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Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson