Sleight: Book 1 of the AVRAKEDAVRA

"Genevieve's grief is profound . . . necessary fuel for the scary, magical quest that she must undertake." ~ The Globe and Mail"This absolutely thrilling novel has everything a good book needs, with lots of mystery, adventure, magic and evil, and even a twinge of romance." ~ Canadian Children's Book News, on Sleight"Sleight makes magic from an enthralling premise, wonderfully drawn characters, and beautiful words. It's hard to avoid descriptors like entrancing, spell-binding, and mystical." ~ Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of the GONE seriesGrowing up in the Cinzio Traveling Players Company, Genevieve Flannery is accustomed to a life most teenagers could never imagine: daily workouts of extravagant acrobatics, wild animals for pets, and her mother, Delia, whose mind has always been tortured by visions-but whose love Geni never questions. In a family of performers who mystify and amaze on a daily basis, Delia's ghostly hallucinations never seemed all that strange . . . until the evening Geni and her mother are performing an aerial routine they've done countless times, and Delia falls to her death.That night, a dark curtain in Genevieve's life opens. As they reel from the tragedy, the Cinzio Players are also grappling with the circus's new owner: a generous but mysterious man whose connection to the circus, Genevieve suspects, has its own dangerous history. And with the discovery of an otherworldly inheritance and her perilous mission to protect it, Gen stumbles into a new reality of her own, her life interrupted daily by the terrors only Delia used to see. As the visions&nb