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Also by Charlie N. Holmberg:

Wizard of Most Wicked Ways, March 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Still the Sun, July 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Boy of Chaotic Making, February 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Hanging City, August 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Heir of Uncertain Magic, April 2023
Audio / audiobook
Heir of Uncertain Magic, April 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms, November 2022
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Star Mother, November 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Spellmaker, March 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Spellbreaker, November 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
The Will and the Wilds, February 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
Myths and Mortals, April 2019
Trade Size / e-Book
Smoke and Summons, February 2019
Trade Size / e-Book
The Plastic Magician, May 2018
Trade Size / e-Book
The Fifth Doll, August 2017
Trade Size / e-Book
The Paper Magician, September 2014
Hardcover / e-Book

The Fifth Doll
Charlie N. Holmberg

The bestselling author of The Paper Magician Series transports readers to a darkly whimsical new world where strange magic threatens a quiet village that only a desperate woman can save.

47North
August 2017
On Sale: July 25, 2017
322 pages
ISBN: 1477806105
EAN: 9781477806104
Kindle: B01NAFXFKI
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Fantasy

Matrona lives in an isolated village, where her life is centered on pleasing her parents. She’s diligent in her chores and has agreed to marry a man of their choosing. But a visit to Slava, the local tradesman, threatens to upend her entire life.

Entering his empty house, Matrona discovers a strange collection of painted nesting dolls—one for every villager. Fascinated, she can’t resist the urge to open the doll with her father’s face. But when her father begins acting strangely, she realizes Slava’s dolls are much more than they seem.

When he learns what she’s done, Slava seizes the opportunity to give Matrona stewardship over the dolls— whether she wants it or not. Forced to open one of her own dolls every three days, she falls deeper into the grim power of Slava’s creations. But nothing can prepare her for the profound secret hiding inside the fifth doll.

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