Ysabeau S Wilce
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These inter-connected stories are set in an opulent quasi-historical world of magick and high manners called the Republic of Califa. The Republic is a strangely familiar place - a baroque approximation of Gold Rush era-California with an overlay of Aztec ceremony - yet the characters who populate it are true originals: rockstar magicians, murderous gloves, bouncing boy terrors, blue tinted butlers, sentient squids, and a three-year-old Little Tiny...
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Flora knows better than to take shortcuts in her family home, Crackpot Hall the house has eleven thousand rooms, and ever since her mother banished the magical butler, those rooms move around at random. But Flora is late for school, so she takes the unpredictable elevator anyway.
Huge mistake. Lost in her own house, she stumbles upon the long-banished butlerandinto a mind-blowing muddle of intrigue and betrayal that changes her world forever.
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In Ysabeau S. Wilce's exciting debut novel, Flora's mom is away, leaving Flora and her father home alone at Crackpot Hall with its 11,000 constantly shifting rooms. Late for school one day, Flora decides to take the elevator down to the first floor. But without her mother around, the elevator has ideas of its own and drops Flora in an unfamiliar room. Lost in her own house, Flora embarks on a harrowing quest to find her way back to where she started....