![]() ![]() Soon, Camille is desperate enough to turn to more powerful magic and more dangerous targets. ![]() She isn’t sure how much more she has to give before there’s nothing left. Every transformation requires more than scraps of metal, la magie also feeds on sorrow–personal anguish that Camille is forced to relive again and again to fuel her own power. ![]() With no one else to depend on, Camille has to turn to la magie ordinaire–the hated magic her mother taught Camille before she died–to turn iron scraps into coins in the hopes of making ends meet. Camille’s older brother Alain is happier drinking and gambling than trying to help their family survive and Sophie, the youngest, is still frail from the smallpox outbreak that killed their parents six months earlier. In 1789, Paris is on the verge of change and revolution–changes that will come too late to save the Durbonnes from ruin. “She hated magic, but it was all she had.” ![]()
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