<div>Two young ladies contend with the Royal College of Wizards in Regency London: First in the series filled with &ldquo;magical twists and turns&rdquo; (San Diego Union-Tribune). Since they were children, cousins Kate and Cecelia have been inseparable. But in 1817, as they approach adulthood, their families force them to spend a summer apart. As Cecelia fights boredom in her small country town, Kate visits London to mingle with the brightest lights of English society. At the initiation of a powerful magician into the Royal College of Wizards, Kate finds herself alone with a mysterious witch who offers her a sip from a chocolate pot. When Kate refuses the drink, the chocolate burns through her dress and the witch disappears. It seems that strange forces are convening to destroy a beloved wizard, and only Kate and Cecelia can stop the plot. But for two girls who have to contend with the pressures of choosing dresses and beaux for their debuts, deadly magic is only one of their concerns. This ebook features illustrated biographies of Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the authors&rsquo; personal collections. </div>

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Sorcery & Cecelia

<div>Family affairs don&rsquo;t stop cousins Cecelia and Kate from their magical duties in Regency England&mdash;&ldquo;A thoroughly enchanting confection&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). It&rsquo;s been a decade since Kate and Cecelia foiled Napoleon&rsquo;s plot to reclaim the French crown. The cousins now have estates, children, and a place at the height of wizarding society. It is 1828, and though magic remains at the heart of the British Empire, a new power has begun to make itself felt across England: the steam engine. As iron tracks crisscross the countryside, the shaking of the locomotives begins to disrupt the workings of English magic, threatening the very foundations of the Empire. A foreign wizard on a diplomatic mission to England vanishes, and the Prime Minister sends Cecelia&rsquo;s husband to investigate. In order to accompany her husband to the north of England, Cecelia leaves her children in Kate&rsquo;s care. As Cecelia and James fight for the future of magic, Kate is left with a no less daunting problem: how to care for a gaggle of disobedient, spell-casting tots. This ebook features illustrated biographies of Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the authors&rsquo; personal collections.</div>

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The Mislaid Magician

<div>Two young Regency ladies with special powers must save the monarchy: &ldquo;A satisfying blend of magic, mystery, humor, and romance&rdquo; (Booklist). Ocean voyages do not agree with wizards, and seasickness during the Channel crossing is the price Cecelia must pay for her budding magical skill. As her nausea ebbs, she is comforted by her new husband, James, and the knowledge that at long last they are on their honeymoon. In their company is Cecelia&rsquo;s cousin Kate, newly minted as the Marchioness of Schofield, and her husband, Thomas. The shared journey guarantees the two couples a happy start to married life, if they can survive the perils of the Continent. In Calais, a mysterious woman visits Cecelia with a package intended for Thomas&rsquo;s mother. Inside is an alabaster flask of noble manufacture, one of the royal artifacts that have been vanishing all over Europe as part of a magical plot against the French crown. This is no simple honeymoon: On their tour of Europe, Kate and Cecelia must save the monarchy from an emperor-in-exile named Napoleon. This ebook features illustrated biographies of Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the authors&rsquo; personal collections. </div>

The Grand Tour

<div>A trio of bewitching novels featuring devoted cousins who must juggle their magical powers with their duties as ladies in Regency-era England. Enter Regency-era England&mdash;and a world in which magical mayhem and high society go hand in hand&mdash;with three novels featuring cousins Cecelia and Kate. In Sorcery &amp; Cecelia, the two cousins have been inseparable since girlhood. But in 1817, Kate goes to London to make her debut into English society, leaving Cecelia behind to fight boredom in her small country town. While visiting the Royal College of Wizards, Kate stumbles on a plot to destroy a beloved sorcerer&mdash;and only Cecelia can help her save him. In The Grand Tour, Cecelia and Kate, along with their husbands, are inaugurating married life with a trip to the Continent. When a mysterious woman in Calais gives Cecelia a package intended for Kate&rsquo;s mother-in-law, however, the two young wives realize they must spend their honeymoons preventing an emperor-in-exile named Napoleon from reclaiming the French crown. In The Mislaid Magician, it is 1828 and the cousins are now society matrons. The steam engine is announcing its arrival and the shaking of the locomotives begins to disrupt England&rsquo;s ancient, underground magical ley lines. When the disappearance of a foreign diplomat threatens to become an international incident, Cecelia departs to fight for the future of magic&mdash;leaving Kate to care for a gaggle of disobedient, spell-casting tots. Blending history, romance, and magic, these charming novels from the author of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles will delight anyone who loves Harry Potter or Susannah Clarke&rsquo;s Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norell. </div>

The Cecelia and Kate Novels

<div>Fairy tales retold&mdash;with a twist&mdash;from &ldquo;some of our best storytellers&rdquo; including Neil Gaiman, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and others (The Washington Post). In this &ldquo;no holds barred . . . nightmarish . . . provocative&rdquo; collection, bestselling and award-winning fantasy masters put a dark, disturbing, and erotic spin on your favorite bedtime stories&mdash;and give you something entirely new to trouble your dreams (The New York Times Book Review). A boy is haunted through adulthood by a soul-eating creature that lies forever in wait under Neil Gaiman&rsquo;s &ldquo;Troll Bridge&rdquo;; a melancholy amphibian shares his most private fantasies with a therapist in Gahan Wilson&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Frog Prince&rdquo;; in Tanith Lee&rsquo;s &ldquo;Snow-Drop,&rdquo; a lonely artist invites seven circus performers into her home to satisfy an obsession; in Steve Rasnic Tem&rsquo;s &ldquo;Little Poucet,&rdquo; a band of lost brothers find refuge and terror with a hungry family in the woods; and Wendy Wheeler delves into the deviant psyche of the predatory male in &ldquo;Little Red.&rdquo; Also featuring Nancy Kress, Charles de Lint, Melanie Tem, Patricia A. McKillip, Jack Dann, and others, all paying a revisit to our favorite fairy tales in ways you&rsquo;ve never dared to imagine. </div>

Snow White, Blood Red

<div>&ldquo;Calling to mind such widely disparate writers as Mark Twain, Andre Norton and Peter Dickinson, Stevermer paints a realistic ruin of society.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly The award-winning author of the Scholarly Magic series delivers the thrilling adventure of a crew of young kids working their way through a post-apocalyptic world on a steamboat they call home . . . No one knows for sure what caused the Flash. They just know that nothing has been the same since. Cities have been destroyed by pestilence, riots, and fires. The paddleboat River Rat, once a museum, was turned into an orphanage. But a dangerous storm forced the children to flee with the boat to safer waters, making it theirs for good. Since then, Tomcat, Toby, Esteban, Lindy, Spike, and Jake have traveled, bartered, and performed their way up and down the Mississippi River. One rule that has served them well: no passengers. But after watching a man on shore being pursued by a vicious pack of locals, the group has no choice but to save him. At every stop, the boat is met by the man&rsquo;s tireless hunters. They want what the fugitive knows: the location of a bunker filled with guns. A currency more valuable than gold . . . and one that the crew of the River Rat might well pay for&mdash;with their lives. &ldquo;An unusual, compelling futuristic novel . . . wry, sharp, lively, and perceptive.&rdquo; &mdash;The Horn Book (starred review) &ldquo;Too good to miss.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age</div>

River Rats

<div>A legendary king becomes a sorcerer&rsquo;s puppet in this novel of art and artifice from the author of The Glass Magician. &ldquo;This book is a gem.&rdquo; &mdash;Tor.com When artist&rsquo;s apprentice Hail Rosamer replicates a coin bearing the visage of the long-dead King Julian, she does so to practice her craft, not to be accused as a counterfeiter. In danger of being imprisoned, Hail flees the city of Aravis&mdash;only to come face-to-face with the man whose profile appears on the coin . . . A necromancer has aligned herself with enemies of the current king. Her goal: to sow chaos throughout the empire by resurrecting King Julian two hundred years after his death. If she succeeds, the throne will be hers. While Hail was growing up, the phrase &ldquo;when the king comes home&rdquo; meant that all well-meaning promises would be kept. But Hail knows that nothing good can come of it now, not with such malevolent forces at play. As spirits from the past begin to arise, Hail joins the battle, riding into an arena of the darkest magic with only her vision, her craft, and her courage to guide her . . . &ldquo;Absolutely the best I&rsquo;ve read in ages! Each chapter is a new revelation on the nature of art or magic, friendship or creativity, heroism or home . . . Stevermer captures the gritty reality that makes fantasy believable; and also finds magic in the most commonplace details.&rdquo; &mdash;Ellen Kushner, World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning author &ldquo;[A] glittering Renaissance triumph set in world an angel&rsquo;s-wing away from our own. Stevermer brings both hearts and crowns vibrantly to life.&rdquo; &mdash;eluki bes shahar (pseudonym of Rosemary Edghill, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Book of Moons ) &ldquo;Beautifully rendered . . . fantasy of a high order.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

When the King Comes Home

<div>&ldquo;A rousing tale of courtly intrigues and chivalrous honor&rdquo; from the author of The Glass Magician (Charles de Lint, award-winning writer). Just as hard-fought peace has come to the land of Staunton, war hero Sir Anthony Folville lies dead&mdash;but not due to his battle wounds. He has been poisoned by the medic treating him, a man supposedly paid by Queen Andred&rsquo;s heir to perform this dastardly act. Now, with the prince imprisoned and accused of murder, his allies join forces to prove his innocence, including the fianc&eacute;e of Sir Anthony and the royal scholar Chrysafer. They have reason to suspect the Duke of Tilbury is behind the plot&mdash;and that the queen is his next target. As spies listen in the shadows and swords clash, there is one weapon that will sway events in the traitorous duke&rsquo;s favor: a legendary serpent&rsquo;s egg with clairvoyant powers. And only Chrysafer is able to sense its magic&mdash;and stop the carnage to come . . . &ldquo;To know this book is to love it passionately. I want to live in it. I want to exchange banter with witty ne&rsquo;er do wells, be boon companion to noble-hearted yet practical ladies, aid a nerdy librarian with her magic, and incidentally save the kingdom. Here is true magic.&rdquo; &mdash;Ellen Kushner, World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning author &ldquo;I really enjoyed reading The Serpent&rsquo;s Egg, and delighted in the unusual characterizations and plot.&rdquo; &mdash;Anne McCaffrey, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Dragonriders of Pern series &ldquo;Sparkling characters, humor, and lots of action . . . A very talented writer!&rdquo; &mdash;R.A. MacAvoy, John W. Campbell Award&ndash;winning author of Lens of the World</div>

The Serpent's Egg

<div>Stories of the archetypal Trickster from Michael Cadnum, Charles de Lint, Patricia A. McKillip, Jeffrey Ford, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and others. World Fantasy Award Finalist The mythic Trickster is both good and bad, wise and witless, sacred and profane. He appears in many different guises in world mythology, taking the form of a god in Greek legend; a coyote, raven, or rabbit in Native American lore; a meddlesome faery in English folktales; a larger-than-life human being in Germany; or the charming, seductive, and deadly kitsune of the Japanese. In true Trickster fashion, this captivating collection of stories will elicit both laughs and gasps. A Louisiana swamp girl makes a wager with a bon &agrave; rien who fiddled the devil out of hell in Delia Sherman&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Fiddler of Bayou Teche.&rdquo; World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip introduces a pickpocket who tries to predict the future with stolen cards, but for whom fate has something else in store, in &ldquo;The Fortune-Teller.&rdquo; And in &ldquo;The Dreaming Wind&rdquo; by Jeffrey Ford, a seasonal gale causes havoc among humans and nature&mdash;but nothing compares to what happens when it fails to reappear. &ldquo;The anthology features tricksters of many cultures from all over the world. Along with Coyote, there are stories here of Loki, Legba, Hermes, Raven, the Monkey King of China, and the fox spirits of Japan. . . . Windling and Datlow have done their usual excellent job of selecting quality work.&rdquo; &mdash;Strange Horizons &ldquo;Sophisticated and well-written.&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy Literature</div>

Caroline Stevermer
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Books By Caroline Stevermer (7 Books)

Sorcery & Cecelia

The Mislaid Magician

The Grand Tour

The Cecelia and Kate Novels

River Rats

When the King Comes Home

The Serpent's Egg

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Books By Caroline Stevermer (7 Books)

Sorcery & Cecelia

The Mislaid Magician

The Grand Tour

The Cecelia and Kate Novels

River Rats

When the King Comes Home

The Serpent's Egg

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