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Practical Talents series

Glamour

Eighteen-year-old Miss Annis Whitworth was raised to support societal reforms to allow women to attend universities, join academic societies, and even make choices about their own lives. So perhaps it's not such a wonder that Annis pursues business over marriage when her father (a spy for England) dies and his fortune is lost. Annis has a talent for sewing glamours -- magical garments that can show the wearer's kind heart and strength of purpose in every inch of primrose lace, or disguise her beyond recognition -- and she intends to use her magic, even at the risk of her respectability.

In this Regency England, a young lady of quality would use her magic for drawing room entertainments, never dirtying her magic with money. As her Aunt Cassia reminds Annis, only members of the lower class would use their talents to earn a middle class life painting illusionary birds that flutter on canvas, or growing trees from seeds in mere weeks. But despite her aunt's fears, Annis plans to risk everything on a secret glamour of her own, using her magic to earn a new comfortable life -- even if it means seeking employment from the spies who hired her father.

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Green Thumb

Green Thumb begins in 1818, as Miss Lynn Riverton, a botanically obsessed young lady of quality, tries to stop a new disease from spreading through her research fields, with the help of gardener Harriet Moore's magical green thumb. Meanwhile, Miss Mia Riverton fixes her attentions on the gentleman she adores -- Mr. Robert North, her sister Lynn's longtime friend and escort.

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.

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