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The Swan Maiden

Raised as a chastelaine-in-training unlike her sisters who are learning the arts of sorcery, Doucette discovers when she is sixteen years old that she too has magic in her blood, and she must brave her mother's wrath—and the loss of the man she loves—in order to follow her birthright.

Setting
medieval
Audience
young adultchildrensmiddle grade

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