“The Province Girl” is a fantasy novel by Ninel Noir, the first book in the “Magic of the Big City” cycle—urban fantasy, detective fantasy. They say there are no magicians anymore. They were wiped out root and branch in the Great Magical Rebellion. They destroyed one another, and the survivors were finished off by enraged people who were tired of endless wars.
Humanity rose up—without the oppression of gifted monsters, progress moved forward by leaps and bounds. A girl from the provinces arrives in the capital on the most modern steam express. She has only one suitcase—and a secret she carefully keeps.
They say crowds execute women-magicians with particular cruelty…