Reinhard Redenberg and the Rules of Road: A historical fantasy novel about magic roads

Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Railways connect cities, airships cross borders, and magic is as ordinary a part of life as telegraphs, tickets and official forms. It can move, order and reveal. It cannot take responsibility away from anyone.Reinhard Redenberg sees possibilities where others have already settled on answers. At his side are Wolfgang Watanabe, who senses traces in people and objects, and Camille Marchand, a young scholar of magical science who takes imprecise explanations personally.Across three connected stories, their roads lead from a stage in Karlsruhe to workshops in the Black Forest, through Austria and Hungary, and finally to a Danish-Japanese research project by the sea. They encounter objects shaped by too many hands, a life forced to find its own rhythm, and measurements that may be accurate even when their interpretation is wrong.Reinhard Redenberg and the Rules of the Road is historical fantasy set in a familiar world with magic: quietly told, dryly humorous, and concerned with how people work, travel, research and accept responsibility for one another.The second volume in the Reinhard Redenberg series.