"Oh, yes, Cassandra, we must go! Just think: you will finally see Wrexham again!" The moment she smoothed it out enough to read the details, her eyes lit up with near-fanatical ardor. She watched with bright interest as I crumpled it up a moment later in disgust…and then she dashed around the table, with surprising agility despite her interesting condition, to snatch the ball of paper from my hands before I could toss it into the blazing fire where it belonged.
Unfortunately, Amy saw the invitation pop into mid-air beside me as we sat en famille at the breakfast table that morning. And anyone would have seen that immediately…except for my incurably romantic sister-in-law. To attend a week-long house party filled with bickering gentleman magicians, ruthlessly cutthroat lady politicians, and worst of all, my own infuriating ex-fiancé? Scarcely two months after I had scandalized all of our most intimate friends by jilting him? Of course, a sensible woman would never have accepted the invitation in the first place. – Ilona Andrews, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of the Kate Daniels series and the Hidden Legacy series Read more Stephanie Burgis is a fresh new voice and I can’t wait to see what she does next. "With its unique twist on the Regency Era, SNOWSPELLED is clever, romantic, and filled with magic. To save herself, Cassandra will have to discover exactly what inner powers she still possesses – and risk everything to win a new kind of happiness.Ī witty and sparkling romantic fantasy novella that opens a brand-new series for adults from the author of Kat, Incorrigible, Masks and Shadows and Congress of Secrets. Now Cassandra is trapped in a snowbound house party deep in the elven dales, surrounded by bickering gentleman magicians, manipulative lady politicians, her own interfering family members, and, worst of all, her infuriatingly stubborn ex-fiancé, who refuses to understand that she’s given him up for his own good.īut the greatest danger of all lies outside the manor in the falling snow, where a powerful and malevolent elf-lord lurks.and Cassandra lost all of her own magic four months ago. But Cassandra Harwood has never followed the rules.įour months ago, Cassandra Harwood was the first woman magician in Angland, and she was betrothed to the brilliant, intense love of her life. In nineteenth-century Angland, magic is reserved for gentlemen while ladies attend to the more practical business of politics.
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