Auraria: A Novel

“Fact and fancy are intertwined cleverly and seamlessly in a top-notch, thoroughly American fantasy.”

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Water spirits, moon maidens, haunted pianos, headless revenants, and an invincible terrapin that lives under the mountains. None of these distract James Holtzclaw from his employer’s mission: to turn the fading gold-rush town of Auraria, GA, into a first-class resort and drown its fortunes below a man-made lake. But when Auraria’s peculiar people and problem...