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\nAbout the Book
\n"In a shab by house\, on a shabby street\, in the new capital of Madrid\, Luzia Cotad o uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a sculli on. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowerin g in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles\, she dem ands Luzia use those gifts to improve the family's social position. What b egins as simple amusement for the nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzi a garners the notice of Antonio Pé\;rez\, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada\, the king is d esperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen--and Pé\;rez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor. Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes\, Luzia plunges into a wo rld of seers and alchemists\, holy men and hucksters\, where the lines bet ween magic\, science\, and fraud are never certain. But as her notoriety g rows\, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inqui sition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to surv ive--even if that means enlisting the help of Guillé\;n Santá\ ;ngel\, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove dead ly for them both."-- Provided by publisher.
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