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jacey
Narrated by Moira Quirk
Beatrice Clayborn is a sorceress who practises magic in secret, dreading the day her father will insist that she marries because a marital collar will strip her of her magic completely in order to protect her unborn children. Her father, desperately trying to keep his head above water, financially, has bet everything on Beatrice securing a rich husband and to that end has spent all his money to equip her for a splendid Bargaining Season. But Beatrice doesn't want to marry. She wants to complete the ritual that will make her a full-fledged Magus. She can't do it without a specific grimoire, one which another sorceress got from her by trickery. She tries to get it back by calling up a spirit, something that would likely get her burnt alive if found out. Falling for the rival sorceress' brother, the fabulously wealthy Ianthe Lavan, tears Beatrice in two. Marry and lose her magic or keep her magic, ruin her family and lose Ianthe forever. How can she choose? This is well narrated by Moira Quirk and it kept me up well past my bedtime because I didn't want to stop listening. Highly recommended.
