A world of magic lies at Gemma’s feet, its great and terrible beauty there for the taking. But her powers are also the only way to make sense of her mother’s death. And she sees things things she shouldn’t be able to see, places that shouldn’t exist.Ī mysterious man has followed Gemma to Spence from India telling her she must stop the visions and close her mind to her powers. She has her own wants that go beyond a respectable husband and a quiet life as someone’s wife. Much as she tries, Gemma isn’t like the other girls at Spence. Spence Academy is meant to take Gemma and the other young students and make them into ladies ready for their first Season and, more importantly, ready to become respectable wives and make good matches for their families.īut Gemma has no desire to be finished if it means never knowing what really happened to her mother or, for that matter, what’s really happening to her. Instead of a glamorous return to England with her family, Gemma is sent to an austere finishing school after her mother’s tragic death under mysterious circumstances. Gemma does get her wish, but not the way she had hoped. Though she comes from respectable English stock, Gemma has never seen the country raised instead in India where it is too hot, too dusty and entirely too boring. All Gemma Doyle wants for her sixteenth birthday is to go to England and to see London.
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