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A Wild West Young Adult Fantasy where A Deadly Education meets True Grit! In the Wild West, magic is real. When two strangers arrive in her small town along the Oregon Trail, Gloriana Rue learns that she has the magical ability, called an Affinity, to manipulate metal. Even more shocking, her late mother was a renowned magical scholar but had abandoned the world of Affinities. Desperate to know more about this secret past, Glory agrees to attend an academy for magicians to find answers. Soon immersed in train robberies, a magical education, and adventure, Glory begins to find her footing in this dangerous new world. Until she stumbles upon a disturbing discovery: A killer is hunting magicians throughout the American West - and he's getting closer to her new home. Glory must glean the truth hidden in her mother's long held secrets to save her community before it's too late. A Strange Affinity is a young adult fantasy novel set in an alternate nineteenth century American Wild West. Fans of Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman, Revenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto, and Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey will love this novel about found family, adventure, and magic.

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"""Old West Magic! There's magic, there's old timey train robberies, there's a super creepy villain. Glory is a wonderful heroine and the found family aspects are just *chef's kiss*. This novel is fun and fantastical and I was sad when it was over!"""

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Rebecca Rook is a hard of hearing person who designs tabletop games, manages a little free library dedicated to sequential art and comics, and lives in the Pacific Northwest with two wonderful dogs. A 2021-2022 Hugo House Fellow in Seattle, WA, she also attended the 2021 Tin House YA Fiction Workshop in Portland, OR. Rebecca was selected as one of the 100 invited writers to participate in the Write Team Mentorship Program's curated Pitch-a-Thon event before being chosen as a Mentee for the 2021 Program. Prior to this, she completed the wonderful Yearlong Workshop for Young Adult and Middle Grade Fiction at Hugo House. She writes young adult fiction in the fantasy, thriller, and horror genres.

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