Claire Legrand
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Hardcover: 464 pages
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ISBN: 978-1442465985
The clock chimes midnight, a curse breaks, and a girl meets a prince . . . but what follows is not all sweetness and sugarplums.
New York City, 1899. Clara Stole, the mayor's ever-proper daughter, leads a double life. Since her mother's murder, she has secretly trained in self-defense with the mysterious Drosselmeyer.
Then, on Christmas Eve, disaster strikes.
Her home is destroyed, her father abducted--by beings distinctly not human. To find him, Clara journeys to the war-ravaged land of Cane. Her only companion is the dethroned prince Nicholas, bound by a wicked curse. If they're to survive, Clara has no choice but to trust him, but his haunted eyes burn with secrets--and a need she can't define. With the dangerous, seductive faery queen Anise hunting them, Clara soon realizes she won't leave Cane unscathed--if she leaves at all.
Inspired by The Nutcracker, Winterspell is a dark, timeless fairy tale about love and war, longing and loneliness, and a girl who must learn to live without fear.
Rinka is a faery, passionate and powerful, determined to maintain the tenuous peace between faeries and humans.
Alban Somerhart is a human, a reluctant king trapped in an arranged marriage, desperate to prevent war.
Their love could save the kingdom of Cane . . . or shatter it forever.
In this captivating novella, prequel to the upcoming Winterspell, Claire Legrand weaves a story of magic, political intrigue, and forbidden love that sets the stage for the rise of a wicked queen and the journey of a human girl named Clara . . .
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About Claire:
Claire Legrand is the author of books for children and teens,
including The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, The Year of Shadows, the
upcoming Winterspell, and its prequel, Summerfall. She is also one of the four
authors of The Cabinet of Curiosities.
When not writing books, she can be found obsessing over DVD
commentaries, going on long walks (or trying to go on long runs), and speaking
with a poor English accent to random passersby. She thinks musicians and
librarians are the loveliest of folks (having been each of those herself) and,
while she loves living in central New Jersey, she dearly misses her big, brash,
beautiful home state of Texas.
Her work is represented by Diana Fox of Fox Literary, LLC.
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