*2015 Nautilus Award winner*
A budding scientist. An embittered warlock. A lone wolf.
These three will determine the fate of Holland.
Descended from freed slaves, orphan Mina trains as a scientist in The Hague. She studies the animals in the nearby woods and—much to her mentor’s dismay—saves them from harm whenever she can.
And, of course, as a good scientist, she doesn’t believe in magic.
But when her parents’ killer, rumored to be a warlock, escapes from prison and kills again, she must question everything she knows in order to solve a mystery and save her world from destruction.
Book 1 of the Naturalist takes the reader on a magical adventure into the Dutch Golden Age.

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