#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * #1 INDIE BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An immersive
sensual experience." - The New York Times "Essential." -The Washington Post From the #1
New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish
Golden Age. 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 improve the family's social
position. What begins as simple amusement for the nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia
garners the notice of Antonio Pérez the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling
from the defeat of his armada the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against
England's heretic queen-and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor. 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 lines between magic science and fraud are 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 Santángel an embittered immortal familiar whose own
secrets could prove deadly for them both.
