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In the glittering, jazz-filled streets of 1926 New York, Althea Dumbledore has finally found a fragile sort of peace. Living in a cramped but cosy brownstone with the Goldstein sisters and working a stable job at MACUSA, she has done the impossible: she has outrun the shadow of her famous brothers and the stinging memory of a boy who chose another girl's darkness over her light.
But peace is a fickle thing in the wizarding world.
When Althea returns home after a gruelling shift to find a bewildered No-Maj at her dinner table and a very familiar, battered suitcase on her floor, her carefully constructed world shatters. Standing in her kitchen is Newt Scamander, the man she hasn't spoken to since he was expelled from Hogwarts. He is as chaotic, brilliant, and maddeningly silent as ever, and he has brought with him a menagerie of escaped creatures that threaten to expose the entire magical community.
As the city teeters on the edge of a magical revolution and the dark wizard Grindelwald looms in the shadows, Althea and Newt are forced into a reluctant partnership. Between chasing Nifflers through department stores and dodging MACUSA Aurors, Althea must confront the secrets of her own bloodline and a question that has haunted her for years: Did Newt really choose Leta Lestrange, or has he been carrying a torch for a Dumbledore girl across the Atlantic?
In a city of millions, the greatest wonders aren't the beasts in the case, but the truths finally whispered in the dark.