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The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C. M. Waggoner
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The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry

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Length 13 hours 31 minutes
Language English
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Dellaria Wells, petty con artist, occasional thief, and partly educated fire witch, is behind on her rent in the city of Leiscourt—again. Then she sees a “wanted” sign seeking Female Persons, of Martial or Magical ability, to guard a Lady of some Importance prior to the celebration of her Marriage. Delly fast-talks her way into the job and joins a team of highly peculiar women tasked with protecting their wealthy charge from unknown assassins. Delly quickly sets her sights on one of her companions, the confident and well-bred Winn Cynallum. The job looks like nothing but romance and easy money until things take a deadly (and undead) turn. With the help of a bird-loving necromancer, a shapeshifting schoolgirl, and an ill-tempered reanimated mouse named Buttons, Delly and Winn are determined to get the best of an adversary who wields a twisted magic and has friends in the highest of places.

C.M. Waggoner is the author of the young-adult fantasy novel Unnatural Magic. She grew up in rural upstate New York, where she spent a lot of time reading fantasy novels in a swamp. After studying creative writing at SUNY Purchase, she lived in China for eight years. In her spare time, she volunteers, performs kitchen experiments, asks if she can pet your dog, and gardens badly. She currently lives with her husband in Albany, New York.

Ava Lucas is a formally trained actor and a Sultry Listeners Award semi-finalist. Her passion and focus are romance novels because she loves to tell stories about people who are missing pieces of themselves and fall in love with a partner who can fill in those gaps. The first romance novel she ever read was Judy Blume's Forever, which was given to her by her mother. A social-media addict, she lives and works in Los Angeles.

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