Moonshine by Alaya Johnson

In her debut novel, Moonshine (St. Martin's Griffin, 288p,Isbn-0312648065), Alaya Johnson imagines a city of Others at the heart of the social struggles of 1920s. Moonshine blends vivid historical fiction and a bittersweet romance with a lively mythology teeming beneath the gritty New York City streets, complete with boarding houses, immigrants, tenements, and construction sites.

In this story, a strapped for cash Zephyr agrees to help a student, the mysterious Amir, who proposes she use her charity worker cover to bring down a notorious vampire mob boss. What he doesn’t tell her is why. Soon enough she’s tutoring a child criminal with an angelic voice, dodging vampires high on a new blood-based street drug, and trying to determine the real reason behind Amir’s request—not to mention attempting to resist (often unsuccessfully) his dark, inhuman charm.

Disclosure - This product was received for review/feature consideration. The synopsis/description was taken from Amazon or the back of the book.
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