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"A warm-hearted yet fierce fairy tale."?H. G. ParryThere is no magic on Prospect Hill-or anywhere else, for that matter. But just on the other side of the veil is the world of the Fae. Generations ago, the first farmers on Prospect Hill learned to bargain small trades to make their lives a little easier-a bit of glass to find something lost, a cup of milk for better layers in the chicken coop.Much of that old wisdom was lost as the riverboats gave way to the rail lines and the farmers took work at mills and factories. Alaine Fairborn's family, however, was always superstitious, and she still hums the rhymes to find a lost shoe and to ensure dry weather on her sister's wedding day.When Delphine confides her new husband is not the man she thought he was, Alaine will stop at nothing to help her sister escape him. Small bargains buy them time, but a major one is needed. Yet, the price for true freedom may be more than they're willing to pay.Praise for The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill:"Brimming with folk magic and delightfully sinister hidden worlds. Truly enchanting."?Leslye Penelope"A beautifully written tale of feminine power, sisterly devotion, and magic as old as the hills themselves."?Louisa MorganFor more from Rowenna Miller, check out:The Unraveled KingdomTornFrayRule

In a time of revolution, everyone - - even a humble seamstress plying her magic to support her family - must take a side.Sophie is a young dressmaker who, with hard work, talent, and a rare proficiency sewing spells into cloth, has managed to open her own shop and lift herself and her brother, Kristos, out of the poverty that plagues their immigrant community. Her reputation for beautiful ballgowns and discreetly-embroidered charms for luck, love, and protection secures her a commission from the royal family itself -- and the commission earns her the attentions of a dashing but entirely unattainable duke.Meanwhile, her brother, a day laborer with a keen mind and a thirst for justice, rises to prominence in the growing anti-monarchist movement. Their worlds collide when the revolution's shadow leader takes Kristos hostage and demands that Sophie place a curse on the queen's new Midwinter costume -- or Kristos will die at their hand.As the proletariat uprising comes to a violent climax, Sophie must choose: between her brother and the community of her birth, and her lover and the life she's striven to build.

In this epic sequel to Torn, the magical seamstress Sophie Balstrade navigates a royal court and foreign alliances fraught with danger -- and may well have to risk everything for love and for country.Open revolt has been thwarted -- for now -- but unrest still simmers in the kingdom of Galitha. Sophie, despite having built a thriving business on her skill at both dressmaking and magic, has not escaped unscathed from her misadventures in the workers' rebellion. Her dangerous foray into curse casting has rendered her powers unpredictable, and her increasingly visible romantic entanglement with the Crown Prince makes her a convenient target for threatened nobles and malcontented commoners alike.With domestic political reform and international alliances -- and her own life -- at stake, Sophie must discern friend from foe... before her magic grows too dark for her to wield.

In this epic conclusion to the Unraveled Kingdom trilogy that began with Torn and Fray, the magical seamstress Sophie Balstrade joins forces with her brother the revolutionary leader and her betrothed the Crown Prince in a deadly bid to change history.The civil war that the charm caster Sophie and the Crown Prince Theodor tried so desperately to avert has come to Galitha. While Theodor joins Sophie's brother and his Reformist comrades in battle, hoping to turn the tide against the better-supplied and better-trained Royalist army, Sophie leverages the only weapon she has: charm and curse casting. She weaves her signature magic into uniforms and supplies, but soon discovers that the challenges of a full-scale war are far greater than the entrepreneurial concerns of her small Galithan dress shop. The fractured leadership of the Reformist army must coalesce, the people of Galitha unite against enormous odds, and Sophie create more than a little magical luck, in order to have a chance of victory.The Unraveled KingdomTornFrayRule

The Palace of Illusions brings readers to a Paris breathless with excitement at the dawn of the twentieth century, where for a select few there is a second, secret Paris where the magic of the City of Light is very real in this enchanting and atmospheric fantasy from the author of The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill.In the run up to the 1900s World's Fair Paris is abuzz with creative energy and innovation. Audiences are spellbound by the Lumiere brothers' moving pictures and Loie Fuller's serpentine dance fusing art and technology. But for Clara Ironwood, a talented and pragmatic clockworker, nothing compares to the magic of her godfather's mechanical creations, and she'd rather spend her days working on the Palace of Illusions, an intricate hall of mirrors that is one of the centerpieces of the world's fair.When her godfather sends Clara a hideous nutcracker for Christmas, she is puzzled until she finds a hidden compartment that unlocks a mirror-world Paris where the Seine is musical, fountains spout lemonade, and mechanical ballerinas move with human grace. The magic of her godfather's toys was real. As Clara explores this other Paris and begins to imbue her own creations with its magic, she soon discovers a darker side to innovation. Suspicious men begin to approach her outside of work, and she could swear a shadow is following her. There's no ignoring the danger she's in, but Clara doesn't know who to trust. The magic of the two Parises are colliding and Clara must find the strength within herself to save them both.

Vo vremja revoljutsii kazhdyj vybiraet, na chej on storone.Shveja Sofi Balstrad zarabotala dlja svoego atele pochti bezuprechnuju reputatsiju. Vo vremja gorodskikh besporjadkov ona mechtala shit platja i zanimatsja charodejstvom. No sudba rasporjadilas inache.Teper Sofi dolzhna risknut vsem, chtoby podderzhat brata, vtjanutogo v smertelnyj zagovor.Chto vybrat: revoljutsiju ili vernost korolevskoj seme? Svobodnoe buduschee ili vernost svoim idealam?

Ja nikogda ne razdavala manifesty na ulitsakh i ne mechtala o perevorote, tvorimom ognem i mechom. Ja znala: grjaduschie peremeny dolzhny sovershitsja bez nasilija i krovi.Poslednie mesjatsy my rabotali s Teodorom nad epokhalnym pravovym aktom. Miriady minut, eta dlitelnaja rabota ruka ob ruku skazalis na kharaktere nashikh otnoshenij.Da, ja khotela vyjti zamuzh za cheloveka, kotorogo ljubila, khotela zanjat bolee vysokoe polozhenie, chtoby otstaivat interesy prostykh ljudej. I da - chego uzh skryvat - menja terzal strakh, chto vysshee obschestvo otvernetsja ot menja. Chto ja poterjaju svoe atele, moju otdushinu.Prishlo vremja vzgljanut strakhu v glaza i prezret opasnosti.

Grazhdanskaja vojna v Galatii, kotoruju tak staralis predotvratit shveja-charodejka Sofi i ejo vozljublennyj prints Teodor, vsjo zhe razrazilas. V to vremja kak Teodor obedinjaetsja s bratom Sofi i reformatorami, nadejas odolet prevoskhodjaschuju ikh po silam armiju rojalistov, Sofi ispolzuet edinstvennoe oruzhie, kotoroe u nejo est: magiju. No krovavaja borba dvukh protivoborstvujuschikh storon okazyvaetsja strashnee i opasnee, chem ona mogla predstavit.Zakljuchitelnaja chast trilogii "Rassekrechennoe korolevstvo" stavit krasivuju tochku v istorii Sofi Balstrad, kotoroj ponadobitsja kuda bolee moschnaja magija, nezheli prostye chary udachi, chtoby pomoch sojuznikam pobedit.

Ves londonskij svet ponimal: kogda-nibud eskapady obajatelnogo povesy i guljaki Khejdena Miltona, grafa Uestfilda, konchatsja plokho. Tak i vyshlo: ranennyj vystrelom broshennoj revnivitsy, graf otlezhivaetsja u sebja v imenii i skuchaet... poka ego vnimanie ne privlekaet prelestnaja novaja sidelka, Sofija Kamden. Sofija, pogloschennaja neobychnoj dlja devushki XIX veka mechtoj - stat vrachom, - malo vnimanija obraschaet na ukhazhivanija svoego znatnogo patsienta. I togda kovarnyj iskusitel predlagaet ej opasnoe pari: esli za desjat dnej ona dokazhet emu svoe prizvanie k meditsine, on ej pomozhet. A esli net - stanet ljubovnitsej grafa, chto, po mneniju Khejdena, kuda bolee zavidnyj zhrebij dlja molodoj krasavitsy. Igra nachinaetsja...