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Life Indigo, Book One: Kasper Mützenmacher's Cursed Hat
Kasper Mützenmacher keeps a divine "wishing hat" locked in the wall safe of his Berlin hat shop. The Mützenmacher family has been cursed to sell hats ever since their Greek ancestor stole Hermes' teleportation hat in the fourth century. Kasper, however, doesn't mind making hats, and he loves Berlin's whiskey-fueled cabaret scene even more. But his carefree life of jazz and booze comes to a screeching halt when he must use the wishing hat to rescue his flapper girlfriend from the shadowy Klaus, a veil-wearing Nazi who brainwashes his victims until they can't see their own faces. Years later, Kasper falls in love with Rosamund, who not only lost her face to Klaus, but also may carry an intergenerational curse connected to Hermes' stolen hat. She warns of Klaus's plans for a night of terror once he's collected enough faces. Kasper dismisses Rosamund's warning as a product of her escalating mental illness, until the government reclassifies him as a Jew, Kristallnacht erupts, and the Nazis start transporting Jews to Dachau. Then Rosamund disappears, and Klaus steals the wishing hat. America, however, will pose Kasper's greatest challenge, as he must convince his wayward son and indifferent grandson that their lives depend on breaking the curse that has trapped the family in the hat business for sixteen centuries. Set against the backdrop of the Jazz Age, Nazi Germany, and World War II Detroit, Kasper Mützenmacher's Cursed Hat is a fantastical family saga about the fluidity of tradition, faith, and identity. It is Book One of the Life Indigo series.
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