Tor Fantasy
July 2006
On Sale: June 27, 2006
Featuring: Miranda Popescu
480 pages ISBN: 0765349507 EAN: 9780765349507 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
This is a truly magical tale, full of strangeness,
terrors and wonders. Many girls daydream that they are
really a princess adopted by commoners. In the case of
teenager Miranda Popescu, this is literally true. Because
she is at the fulcrum of a deadly political battle between
conjurers in an alternate world where "Roumania" is a
leading European power, Miranda was hidden by her aunt in
our world, where she was adopted and raised in a quiet
Massachusetts college town.
The narrative is split between our world and the people in
Roumania working to protect or to capture Miranda: her Aunt
Aegypta Schenck versus the mad Baroness Ceaucescu in
Bucharest, and the sinister alchemist, the Elector of
Ratisbon, who holds her true mother prisoner in Germany.
This is the story of how Miranda -- with her two best
friends, Peter and Andromeda -- is brought back to her home
reality. Each of them is changed in the process and all will
have much to learn about their true identities and the
strange world they find themselves in.