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A rebel witchA missing gargoyleA deadly adversaryIt's 1921. The Great War is finally over, but trouble is again brewing for Paris' most defiant witch.When Father Dominic knocks at Celeste Bérenger's door asking her to find Eddie, one of the last living gargoyles, she jumps at the chance.For the last fifty years, she and her life partner, Astrid Tollefsen, have run an apothecary shop on the border between the hidden Magical Quarter with its cornucopia of magical denizens and the mundane streets of post-war Paris. Fifty years of punishment for a devastating natural disaster that wasn't entirely Celeste's fault.But this is her chance to feel useful again.Helped by her friend, the undead Lord Byron, Celeste's hunt for Eddie leads her from the casinos and brothels of the Magical Quarter to the Bohemian intelligentsia of Gertrude Stein's Saturday salons, and into a devious web of danger woven just for her. To protect Byron, save Astrid, and rescue Eddie, Celeste must defy the rules again and draw on forbidden magic...before time runs out for all of them.
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