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Marit doesn’t like to use magic too often; it always comes with a heavy price. When her best friend Eve is adopted by a legendary former dancer and placed in an elite ballet program outside of Copenhagen, Marit draws upon her powers to secure a job with the wealthy family so that she can watch over her. But Marit has another, secret motivation: her father died while working for the dancer’s family, and she has reason to believe he was murdered.
While Marit adapts to her glittering new life in Copenhagen, she starts to investigate her father’s death in earnest. With every step she takes to get closer to the truth, she and everyone she loves is put in greater danger.
Soon Marit finds herself at the centre of a power struggle that goes all the way up to the king, and magic may be the only thing that can save her – if it doesn’t kill her first.
Reviews
Issues of servitude and sacrifice simmer beneath the surface of a lush 19th-century fantasy… Come for the ballet costumes, stay for the exposé of corruption
Kirkus Reviews
Emily Bain Murphy weaves an exquisite tale of mystery, enchantment and valor. I loved this spellbinding book!
Rebecca Ross, author of 'The Queen's Rising'
Praise for The Disappearances
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Thick with mystery, buried secrets, and magic, nothing is safe in The Disappearances. Be careful, or you might lose yourself in this strange and wondrous world, where stars go missing, reflections don’t exist, and the question, how much would you sacrifice for love? is given entirely new meaning. I adored this book!
The Disappearances is a wonder of a book. I lost myself in this world where reflections, scents and stars go missing, and revelled in its reveal
Inventive, ambitious, effortlessly evoking the ephemeral beauties of the workaday world, this elegiac mystery might prompt the reader to ransack Hamlet or Othello in the hope of finding steganographic secrets within
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