Ranger Paraversum Series by Vesna Kurilić

Could you fall for someone who looked just like you?An apprentice Cartographer, working for a secret society in a city which has just barely made it out of World War II, Lina is just about to embark on her first job assignment in a parallel world. For her, the answer is about to become tricky.Because Karol, the parallel world engineer looking for her help in a missing persons case, is everything she never thought she could be.Including irresistible... moreCould you fall for someone who looked just like you?An apprentice Cartographer, working for a secret society in a city which has just barely made it out of World War II, Lina is just about to embark on her first job assignment in a parallel world. For her, the answer is about to become tricky.Because Karol, the parallel world engineer looking for her help in a missing persons case, is everything she never thought she could be.Including irresistible.Coincidentally, the engineer is also Lina’s exact copy, a one in a million doppelgänger—the one person you’re never supposed to meet.As the two women team up to find a murderer in this decadent dieselpunk mystery, they will soon discover there’s more to each other than the surface likeness which the eye can see—making this, unfortunately, a matter for the heart to resolve.And accepting her heart’s desires was never Lina’s strong suit. less

Months after living through the disgrace of having several people murdered at his own party, making him avoid polite society altogether, Freddie finally agreed to join his partner Ivan in a weekend getaway.Their friend’s private mountainside residence has everything a queen like Freddie might desire—dancing, bubbly drinks, old friends, new twinks, and an artificial ice rink in a veritable forest. The only thing missing in a dead body—right in the middle of Freddie and Ivan’s romantic holiday... moreMonths after living through the disgrace of having several people murdered at his own party, making him avoid polite society altogether, Freddie finally agreed to join his partner Ivan in a weekend getaway.Their friend’s private mountainside residence has everything a queen like Freddie might desire—dancing, bubbly drinks, old friends, new twinks, and an artificial ice rink in a veritable forest. The only thing missing in a dead body—right in the middle of Freddie and Ivan’s romantic holiday.Freddie and Ivan is a standalone holigay mystery novella, with passing references to events portrayed in Johnny’s Girls. less

Building a city back up from the brink of ruin should be harder than facing your own past—right?A few months after WWII was officially declared over, all’s easier because Karol’s here, in Lina’s world, working at her side. She might be staying for a few weeks, or a few months—it’s out of their hands, and Lina doesn’t even dare to hope... moreBuilding a city back up from the brink of ruin should be harder than facing your own past—right?A few months after WWII was officially declared over, all’s easier because Karol’s here, in Lina’s world, working at her side. She might be staying for a few weeks, or a few months—it’s out of their hands, and Lina doesn’t even dare to hope. Her biggest problem is how to keep her growing affection for her parallel world doppelgänger a secret from her cabbage-stewing landlady, while simultaneously making sure her boss Anna doesn’t dislike Karol on sight.She has a good thing going for her, finally… right until an old friend asks for help with the one thing Lina’s had more than enough of—a dead body. Soon, shit starts going sideways, proving that the challenge her former sisters at the convent are about to face might not be as benign in nature as she’d first thought—nor completely of this world.Join Lina and Karol in a new, slightly darker historical fantasy adventure in Lina’s own backyard. Because, if there’s a single thing that’s certain in the whole damn paraversum, it’s that nothing hurts as much as going home. A lesbian historical fantasy. Second installment of the Ranger Paraversum series. less

What are your secrets worth to you?To Lina Malnar, a member of the secret Cartographer Association tasked with keeping the knowledge about portals to other worlds safe from the unassuming public, the early weeks of 1946 mark the first time she’ll get to spend a few days in peace and quiet with her lover, her partner, her otherworldly copy Karol and her impressive collection of bespoke suits... moreWhat are your secrets worth to you?To Lina Malnar, a member of the secret Cartographer Association tasked with keeping the knowledge about portals to other worlds safe from the unassuming public, the early weeks of 1946 mark the first time she’ll get to spend a few days in peace and quiet with her lover, her partner, her otherworldly copy Karol and her impressive collection of bespoke suits.Getting invited to stay at the elusive family home of the Prodans—Karol’s adoptive family, the one she won’t say a word about to Lina—is not how the girls planned to spend their first vacation together. Being involved in a fatal accident at the engineering marvel site nearby, the wind repressor engines atop of the Quarnaro Bay, wasn’t part of the plan, either.But the cogs of Upper society of the Bay keep turning, and with help from old friends, newly met relatives and a little patience and cunning, Lina and her partner will soon have to find their way out of a very old, very private, very discreet family problem.In a world where everything is golden nothing truly glitters, and the secrets you don’t know can still cost you your life. less

How do you find someone when you don’t know who they even are?It’s early 1946, the Cartographer chapter of the City of Rijeka is in turmoil, and the worlds of the known paraversum are under threat.As their bosses combine their resources to stop the elusive, mysterious chapter that’s taking out others one by one, the girls find themselves at the forefront of a clandestine task force…

If you could be anyone, anything, anywhere… would you choose to be yourself? "Stranded. That's what we are."An old mansion on a cliff, overlooking the sea, keeping its own secrets within. An artist colony with nothing to show for their work other than petty drama, missing art pieces and people running into the night... moreIf you could be anyone, anything, anywhere… would you choose to be yourself? "Stranded. That's what we are."An old mansion on a cliff, overlooking the sea, keeping its own secrets within. An artist colony with nothing to show for their work other than petty drama, missing art pieces and people running into the night. A disillusioned Cartographer desperate for company as the summer comes and the old ways are changed forever…It would suffice to say Lina and Karol's working vacation is not going as planned. Stripped of the day to day hustle and bustle of deadly missions, away from their friends and family, waiting for the aftermath of their last expedition to unfold elsewhere, the fact that they're all but babysitting a serial arsonist, with an agenda of his own, does not help the girls in the slightest.Especially not once murder and mayhem come knocking on their door again, even in the peaceful parallel they’re hiding in, making the true issue at hand finally known—what future could two women with allegiances to different worlds of the paraversum ever claim as their own?Girls Ashore is the fifth book in the sapphic retrofuturistic mystery series Ranger Paraversum. Start with book Johnny's Girls. less