Hu Chen has just moved to Pittsburgh to live with his Aunt Li above her magic shop that is full of clutter.

Stephen Walsh, a drag queen who lives and works at FuBar, has been a magician's assistant in his time, and like everything he's involved with and does he knows the history behind it well. I omitted heart, that sounds corny, but it's true. I told them it was a hard one to judge as Adam and Ryan - All That Drag - hold a special place on my reading shelf. I had a friend ask me what I thought of this book, I status updated it today but I finished it last night. This full length novel (80,000 words) can be read as a standalone or as a sequel to All That Drag. Newly arrived from San Francisco, Hu Chen is shy, thoughtful and a perfect gentleman, so different from Stephen’s usual type that the attraction between them catches both of them by surprise.Īs their flirtation blooms into a hot summer fling, Stephen is forced to confront his painful past, and face the frightening possibility that it has left him too broken to learn how to love a good man. Then one day he walks into the local magic store and meets the owner’s nephew. Violent drunks, thieves, liars, cheats – he’s had them all and had his heart broken so many times that he’s decided it’s easier to remain single, even if some days the loneliness is unbearable. Sweet, helpful, sympathetic – both in and out of drag Stephen Walsh (aka Helena Montana) plays Disney princess to his best friend Bunny’s snarling Ursula, the Blanche to his Baby Jane.īut like so many Disney princesses, Stephen has dark origins.

Making Magic by Jess Whitecroft