A Curious Kind of Magic

Howl''s Moving Castle meets Little Thieves in this cozy fantasy about the teenage owner of a (mostly fake) magical curiosity shop and a girl cursed to turn everything she touches into magic.Everyone in Ardmuir knows that Willow Stokes is a charlatan, including Willow herself. Her fathers shoppe hasnt sold anything magical in decades, and its only hanging on by the skin of the fake dragons teeth Willow sells as charms, along with enchanted ostrich eggs, taxidermied chimeras, and talismans made of fools gold.Until outlander Brianna Hargrave appears and turns Willows fakes into exactly what theyre purported to be. But try as Willow might to enlist Bris help, she wants nothing to do with Willow and her curiosities.Because Brianna is harboring a secret of her own: everything she touches turns to magic, and the consequences have chased her all the way to Ardmuir. All she wants to do is find a particular missing grimoire, which contains a spell that can finally put an end to her curse. Desperate to keep her father''s shoppe, Willow proposes a bargain that could save them both. Together with the frustratingly handsome printer''s assistant, the girls will uncover a plot that goes far deeper than either could have imagined. But when Willow is forced to participate in an ambitious collector''s quest for the rarest magical object in the worlda quest that risks almost-certain deathshe learns that not all treasure is for sale, and that true magic is closer than she ever could have imagined.