Anna is sympathetic to their cause but knows that Luminate officials would kill to maintain the status quo, so she decamps to Hungary. When an unfortunate incident reveals that Anna has a singular talent for breaking spells, she is beset by requests from rebels to undo the Binding. Enter Anna Arden, a 16-year-old of noble birth who can't cast spells, and will therefore never be accepted into Luminate society. Highborn magicians known as Luminates rule Europe, and a spell dubbed the Binding precludes proletarian insurrection by restricting the use of magic to those with noble blood. “A fast-paced historical fantasy full of magic, romance, and adventure!”-JESSICA DAY GEORGE, New York Times bestselling author of Silver in the BloodĮves's captivating debut opens in London in 1847. In the company of nobles, revolutionaries, and Romani, Anna must choose: deny her unique power and cling to the life she’s always wanted, or embrace her ability and change that world forever. Isolated from the only world she cares about, Anna still can’t seem to stop herself from breaking spells.Īs rebellion spreads across the region, Anna’s unique ability becomes the catalyst everyone is seeking.

Not the society she’s known all her life, for discontent with the Luminate is sweeping the land. Not the people around her, from her aloof cousin Noémi to the fierce and handsome Romani Gábor. In Hungary, Anna discovers that nothing is quite as it seems. But her fate takes another course when, after inadvertently breaking her sister’s debutante spell-an important chance for a highborn young woman to show her prowess with magic-Anna finds herself exiled to her family’s once powerful but now crumbling native Hungary. Though her family is part of the Luminate, powerful users of magic, she is Barren, unable to perform the simplest spells. Sixteen-year-old Anna Arden is barred from society by a defect of blood. In a world where social prestige derives from a trifecta of blood, money, and magic, one girl has the ability to break the spell that holds the social order in place. The thrilling first book in a YA fantasy trilogy for fans of Red Queen.

' richly imagined 19th-century historical fantasy.' -EW, A. 'A magical tale unlike anything you've read before.' -Bustle

Blood Rose Rebellion by Rosalyn Eves