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Paris is a labyrinth 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, seventeen-year-old Camille must find a way to provide for her beloved younger sister while managing their volatile brother. Relying on maigc, Camille painstakingly turns scraps of metal into money to buy the 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 perilous scheme a 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 la magie. 

There, she gambles at cards, desperate to have enough to keep herself and her sister safe. Yet the longer she stays at court, the more difficult it becomes to reconcile her resentment of the nobles with  the enchantments of Versailles. And when she returns to Paris, Camille meets a handsome young balloonist - who dares her to hope that love and liberty may both be possible.

But in this world, nothing is what it seems. Magic has its costs, and when Camille loses control of her secrets, the game she's playing turns deadly. Then revolution erupts, and Camille must choose - love or loyalty, democracy or aristocracy, reality or magic - before Paris burns.
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