Gita Trelease

Enchantee Gita Trelease

Love. Magic. Revolution. . . Enchantée is Gita Treleases imaginative debut fantasy about an impoverished magician desperate to provide for her beloved sister on the eve of the French Revolution. Paris is a labryinth of twisted streets filled with beggars and thieves, revolutionaries and magicians. Camille Durbonne is one of them. She wishes she werent. . . 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 wont hold their shape and her brother disappears with the familys 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. Praise for Enchantée: ""Deliciously addictive. Enchantée is a lit firework crackling with treacherous magic, decadent romance, and disguises that take on lives of their own. I adore this gorgeous book. "" — Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval “A heady, sparkling dream of a book. I tumbled head over heels into Enchantées dark and sumptuous magical Paris and wanted to stay there forever. One of the best fantasies Ive read in years. - Maragret Rogerson, New York Times bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens