Borderline

· The Arcadia Project Book 1 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
4.3
19 reviews
eBook
400
Pages
Eligible

About this eBook

A cynical, disabled film director with borderline personality disorder gets recruited to join a secret organization that oversees relations between Hollywood and Fairyland in this Nebula Award–nominated and Tiptree Award Honor Book that’s the first novel in a new urban fantasy series from debut author Mishell Baker.

A year ago, Millie lost her legs and her filmmaking career in a failed suicide attempt. Just when she’s sure the credits have rolled on her life story, she gets a second chance with the Arcadia Project: a secret organization that polices the traffic to and from a parallel reality filled with creatures straight out of myth and fairy tales.

For her first assignment, Millie is tasked with tracking down a missing movie star who also happens to be a nobleman of the Seelie Court. To find him, she’ll have to smooth-talk Hollywood power players and uncover the surreal and sometimes terrifying truth behind the glamour of Tinseltown. But stronger forces than just her inner demons are sabotaging her progress, and if she fails to unravel the conspiracy behind the noble’s disappearance, not only will she be out on the streets, but the shattering of a centuries-old peace could spark an all-out war between worlds.

No pressure.

Ratings and reviews

4.3
19 reviews
Ash Stewart
24 March 2016
I really was enjoying it until the ending ruined it all by unceremoniously bumping off a bunch of the cast like a game of thrones episode during sweeps week.
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Greg Bowman
8 May 2016
I can't remember the last time I've identified with a character like I did with Millie Roper. Reading how she felt and reacted to everything thrown at her felt like reading about my own thoughts and feelings. A huge thank you to Mishell Baker for sharing this world with us. I wish I could go back and read it fresh from the start again.
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Siavash Golkar
18 November 2017
Caution. LA style sycophantism and shallow judgementalism in full effect. Avoid if you're not a fan of that culture.
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About the author

Mishell Baker is the author of the Nebula and World Fantasy Award Finalist Borderline, which was also a Tiptree Honor book, as well as the second and third books in The Arcadia Project, Phantom Pains and Impostor Syndrome. She is a 2009 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, and her short stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Redstone Science Fiction, and Electric Velocipede. She has a website at MishellBaker.com and frequently Tweets about writing, parenthood, mental health, and assorted geekery at @MishellBaker. When she’s not attending conventions or going on wild research adventures, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children.

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