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Valour and Vanity by Mary Robinette Kowal

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Also by Mary Robinette Kowal:

The Martian Contingency, March 2025
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The Spare Man, September 2022
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The Relentless Moon, July 2020
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The Relentless Moon, July 2020
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The Fated Sky, September 2018
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The Calculating Stars, July 2018
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Ghost Talkers, August 2017
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Of Noble Family, April 2015
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Valour and Vanity, April 2014
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Without a Summer, March 2014
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Glamour in Glass, January 2013
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Shades of Milk and Honey, June 2011
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Valour and Vanity
Mary Robinette Kowal

Glamourist Histories #4
Tor
April 2014
On Sale: April 29, 2014
ISBN: 076533416X
EAN: 9780765334169
Kindle: B00HL0MA78
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Fantasy Historical

Acclaimed fantasist Mary Robinette Kowal has enchanted many fans with her beloved novels featuring a Regency setting in which magic—known here as glamour—is real. In Valour and Vanity, master glamourists Jane and Vincent find themselves in the sort of a magical adventure that might result if Jane Austen wrote Ocean's Eleven.

After Melody's wedding, the Ellsworths and Vincents accompany the young couple on their tour of the continent. Jane and Vincent plan to separate from the party and travel to Murano to study with glassblowers there, but their ship is set upon by Barbary corsairs while en route. It is their good fortune that they are not enslaved, but they lose everything to the pirates and arrive in Murano destitute.

Jane and Vincent are helped by a kind local they meet en route, but Vincent is determined to become self-reliant and get their money back, and hatches a plan to do so. But when so many things are not what they seem, even the best laid plans conceal a few pitfalls. The ensuing adventure is a combination of the best parts of magical fantasy and heist novels, set against a glorious Regency backdrop.

Glamourist Histories

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