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&ldquo\;The Familiar&rdquo\; by Leigh Bardugo.
\n"In a shabby house\, on a shabby street\, in the new capital of Madrid\, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion . But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles\, she deman ds Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begi ns as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when L uzia garners the notice of Antonio Pé\;rez\, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada\, the king i s desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen-- and Pé\;rez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor. Determi ned to seize this one chance to better her fortunes\, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists\, holy men and hucksters\, where the lines between magic\, science\, and fraud are never certain. But as her notoriet y grows\, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the In quisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to s urvive--even if that means enlisting the help of Guillé\;n Santangel \, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly fo r them both" - Provided by publisher.
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