Julie Berry
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When their irascible headmistress, Mrs. Plackett, and her surly brother, Mr. Godding, are poisoned at Sunday dinner, the girls of St. Etheldreda's School for Young Ladies face a dilemma. The school will almost certainly be closed and the girls sent home-- unless these seven very proper young ladies can hide the murders and convince their neighbors that nothing is wrong. But there's a murderer on the loose-- how can the girls be sure the killer won't...
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Orphaned at age five, Lucinda, now fifteen, stands with courage against the man who took everything from her, aided by a thief, a clever goat, and a mysterious woman called the Witch of Amaranth, while the prince she knew as a child prepares to marry, unaware that he, too, is in danger.