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Love. Magic. Revolution...Enchante is Gita Trelease's imaginative debut fantasy about an impoverished magician desperate to provide for her beloved sister on the eve of the French Revolution."Deliciously addictive." -- Stephanie Garber, author of Caraval"A heady, sparkling dream of a book." -- Margaret Rogerson, author of An Enchantment of Ravens"An utterly beguiling spell." -- Laura Sebastian, author of Ash PrincessParis is a labryinth of twisted streets filled with beggars and thieves, revolutionaries and magicians. Camille Durbonne is one of them. She wishes she weren't...When smallpox kills her parents, Camille must find a way to provide for her younger sister while managing her volatile brother. Relying on magic, Camille painstakingly transforms scraps of metal into money to buy food and medicine they need. But when the coins won't hold their shape and her brother disappears with the family's savings, Camille pursues a richer, more dangerous mark: the glittering court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.Using dark magic forbidden by her mother, Camille transforms herself into a baroness and is swept up into life at the Palace of Versailles, where aristocrats both fear and hunger for magic. As she struggles to reconcile her resentment of the rich with the allure of glamour and excess, Camille meets a handsome younge inventor, and begins to believe that love and liberty may both be possible.But magic has its costs, and soon Camille loses control of her secrets. And when revolution erupts, Camille must choose -- love or loyalty, democracy or aristocracy, reality of magic -- before Paris burns.
About the Author
Born in Sweden to Indian and Swedish parents, Gita Trelease has lived in many places, including New York, Paris, and a tiny town in central Italy. She attended Yale College and New York University, where she earned a Ph.D. in British literature. Before becoming a novelist, she taught classes on monsters and fairy tales - many of which have seeped into her stories. Along with her husband and son, Gita divides her time between a village in Massachusetts and the coast of Maine. She is the author of All That Glitters (previously published as Enchantée) and the forthcoming Everything That Burns, published in the UK as Liberté.Connect with her on Instagram: @gitatrelease.
