Charles Stross is another SFF author with several series to his name. THE ATROCITY FILES stars office workers in a banal cubicle-hell office whose job is corralling horrors, but The HIDDEN FAMILIES series is more fun.
In the first book,THE FAMILY TRADE, Miriam, an investigative journalist, looks at an old locket and is transported into a parallel world of apparently medieval culture—where guys on horses have machine guns. Miriam has been lost to this world because her mother escaped to the United States. Now that she's back, she is valued as a broodmare for more "world-walkers." The alternate world's economy comes from drug-smuggling, and when Miriam bravely tries to modernize it, the aristocracy plops her into a gilded prison.
Tension ramps up with a bloody civil war, and then it's learned that a faction has spirited away US backpack nukes. Now Miriam is fighting for the lives of the family she never knew.
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