Three Kinds of Lucky (The Shadow Age, Bk. 1)

Overview

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Hollows novels comes a Dragon Award-nominated contemporary fantasy that will have you calling in sick just to finish one more chapter.

Petra Grady has always known she's the odd one out. In a world full of mages wielding real power, she has zero talent for casting spells — and that's never going to change. What she does have is a rare ability to handle dross: the toxic, magical waste that her more gifted colleagues leave behind like a trail of glittering garbage.

It's not glamorous work. But as a sweeper first-class at the mages' university, Grady has carved out a decent, predictable life doing what she does best.

Then Benedict Strom walks in and wrecks it.

Oblivious, infuriatingly attractive, and completely out of her league, Benedict is running a research project on dross — and he needs someone with Grady's exact skill set. She doesn't want to be on his team. She doesn't get a choice.

The problem is, Benedict doesn't truly understand dross the way Grady does. He studies it. She lives it. And when a catastrophic accident turns their carefully controlled research into a crisis, the two of them are suddenly on the run with no good options.

Their only hope is tracking down an outcast — someone exiled a decade ago for the unthinkable crime of using dross to cast actual spells. The kind of person the mages' establishment would rather everyone forgot existed.

The deeper Grady goes, the more questions surface about the magical world she thought she understood. About dross. About the rules. About herself.

She's spent her whole life working around her limitations. Now she has to decide if those limitations were ever real in the first place — and whether proving it could cost everything.

"So much fun! A 'stay up all night reading and call in sick to work the next morning' kind of book. Harrison bats another one out of the park. Loved it, just loved it." — Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson series

Series Information

Series Name: The Shadow Age

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