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By Christy Anne Jones
Fantasy Fiction
Dorothy Louise Walcott is a timid young woman. Twenty-three, chronically ill and over-educated, she dreams ceaselessly of running away from her drab existence to learn magic. But, in her country, the use of magic is strictly prohibited to all but an esteemed few. Dot flees her dreary hometown and journeys to the capital, Alliaster, She tumbles headfirst into an apprenticeship with the witch Theodora.
But the enigmatic Theodora is also hiding secrets. When her dark past comes calling, it threatens to drown the witch's empire, and take Dot, the tea shop and the city with it.