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by Sharon Gosling.

288 pages.

Summary: A girl alone in a city that believes women incapable of stage magic. A trick so spectacular and dangerous that it hasn't appeared in years. And a man who will stop at nothing to be the first to perform it again. It's 1897 and the Magnificent Marko has just died, taking with him the way to unlock the greatest trick ever performed: the Golden Butterfly. But to Luciana, the Magnificent Marko was more than a great magician - he was her grandfather, and the person who taught her the magic she loves so dearly. So when the menacing leader of the Grand Society of Magicians, Thursby, appears on her doorstep searching for the key to the Golden Butterfly, Luciana joins a race against time to uncover it first. Determined to protect her grandfather's legacy, Luciana travels to London in search of answers. But as she is drawn further in to the mysterious magical world he left behind, Lucinda begins to realise that among his many secrets may be one about her past. (Publisher)