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by Leigh Bardugo
Luzia is a housemaid with hidden magical abilities, surrounded by the power hungry and navigating the dangers of the Spanish Inquisition. Forming a precarious alliance with an immortal familiar, they face threats from both magic and society while confronting their own secrets.
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Luzia is a housemaid with hidden magical abilities, surrounded by the power hungry and navigating the dangers of the Spanish Inquisition. Forming a precarious alliance with an immortal familiar, they face threats from both magic and society while confronting their own secrets.
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 demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santangel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.