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Practical Talents series

Glamour

Until she's orphaned and impoverished, Miss Annis Worthner has no reason to suspect she has the talent for sewing glamours -- garments that magically display the owner's inner qualities. Unemployable due to her lack of references, she disguises herself as a French modiste of irrefutable taste and begins to lead a double life. Who would care what secrets a spinster in a country town might be hiding? No one -- except her late father's solicitor, the handsome and entirely too inquisitive Mr. Harrington.

Green Thumb

Green Thumb begins in 1818, as Miss Lynn Riverton, a botanically obsessed young lady of quality, tries to determine why gardener Harriet Moore's magical green thumb now seems to be killing every plant she touches. Meanwhile, Miss Mia Riverton fixes her attentions on the gentleman she adores -- Mr. Robert North, her sister Lynn's longtime friend and escort. With the help of a magical ballgown, a temperamental gardener, and the perfect housekeeper, things just might end up happily after all.

Fairy Tales Uncovered

Of Slipper and Snakes, or, How to Save Yourself

Mira never imagined a neighboring king's war would kill the man she loved and her entire family. Now, trapped in the conquering king's castle with eleven other princesses, waiting for the marriage arrangements that will expand the king's empire still wider, she dreams only of escape.

But when a secret passage opens in the floor of their bedroom, leading them to an underground land of jeweled trees and endless dancing, Mira worries. Who are the handsome young men who welcome them, and how did they remain unscarred by the war? What do they want with her adopted sisters?

When she finds their missing thirteenth sister, naked and pregnant, sleeping amid a pile of snakes, Mira answers some of her questions. But by then, she's already lost the ability to speak her mind.

Three Ells

When Elin carved the first animal live from the wood, she didn't know her family would fear her magic. She never imagined being sought by a bear who wanted to teach her, or by whatever it was that came to her room each night. Or that her magic would take her east of the sun, west of the moon to bring him back.