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==External Links==
==External Links==
[http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=94867 M.K. Hobson's Author Page at Random House]
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=94867 M.K. Hobson's Author Page at Random House]
[http://www.demimonde.com/the-native-star/ '''The Native Star''' pages on the author's Website]
*[http://www.demimonde.com/the-native-star/ '''The Native Star''' pages on the author's Website]
[[Category:2010 novels]]
[[Category:2010 novels]]
[[Category:American novels]]
[[Category:American novels]]

Revision as of 20:55, 18 January 2010

The Native Star
AuthorM. K. Hobson
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience Fiction
PublisherBantam Spectra
Publication date
October 2010
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
ISBN0-7653-1708-7

The Native Star is a historical fantasy novel, and the first novel from writer M. K. Hobson.

Plot Summary

The Native Star is set in America in 1876, and follows the adventures of Emily Edwards, town witch of the tiny Sierra Nevada settlement of Lost Pine. Her business is suffering from the rise of mail-order patent magicks, and her only chance at avoiding the penury that is at her doorstep is to use a love spell to bewitch the town’s richest lumberman into marrying her.

When the love spell goes terribly wrong, Emily is forced to accept the aid of Dreadnought Stanton—a pompous and scholarly Warlock from New York—to set things right. Together, they travel from the seedy underbelly of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast, across the United States by transcontinental railroad and biomechanical flying machine, to the highest halls of American magical power only to find that love spells (and love) are more dangerous than either of them ever could have imagined.