A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Allison Saft
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As Niamh leaned over the railing of the ship’s deck, she was struck with the
sinking feeling that she had forgotten something.
She’d folded all of her best pieces in delicate cream paper, packed her
bobbins and fabric shears, and—most importantly—tucked the invitation
safely away in her reticule. That was everything. Surely that was
everything. But then again, she couldn’t be certain. Keeping track of things
had never exactly been her strong suit. And as much as she hated to admit it
(and although she was secretly convinced her reticule did indeed contain a
portal to a stranger realm, filled only with broken pencils and stray pocket
change), there really was no arguing with the truth: everything she held
dear, from her favorite pair of scissors to precious years of her life, had a
way of slipping through her fingers.
It couldn’t hurt to check for the invitation again.
Niamh rummaged through her reticule and sighed with relief when she
found the letter there. Its edges curled in the harsh sea air, and although the
parchment looked yellowed with time, in reality it had only been the victim
of at least five tea-spilling incidents. By now, she had memorized every
inch of it, from the unbroken wax seal of the royal family, worn smooth and
glossy by the restless pads of her fingers, to the smudged ink of its contents.
Dear Niamh Ó Conchobhair,
You are cordially invited to Avaland as an honored guest of the royal
family, to serve as the royal tailor for the wedding of His Royal
Highness the Prince Christopher, Duke of Clearwater, and Her
Royal Highness Rosa de Todos los Santos de Carrillo, Infanta of
Castilia …
Even now, she could hardly process it. Her, a Machlish girl from a
backwater like Caterlow, the tailor for the royal wedding. Finally, all her
hard work had paid off.
Two years ago, one of the girls back home, Caoimhe Ó Flaithbertaigh,
had traveled to Avaland to visit a distant relative. And when she’d worn one
of Niamh’s designs to a ball—a lovely dress of yellow silk, embroidered
with metallic thread and enchanted with memories of early spring—she’d
ensnared the most eligible bachelor of the Season, the young Duke of
Aspendale. Since then, Avlish clients had trickled in steadily, all of them
hungry for a taste of the magic that had turned a lowly Machlishwoman into
a duchess.
Niamh had made gowns for nobles desperate to make their
powerless daughters irresistible, for young gentlewomen aiming to marry
into the aristocracy, for matrons clinging to their faded beauty. Their
ambitions had kept her family afloat these last two years—just barely. After
all, few people in all of Machland could afford gowns enchanted by Ó
Conchobhair magic anymore.
But now she did not need to worry about her mother, with her swollen
joints and fading eyesight, or her grandmother, who grew frailer and more
bitter by the day, or the roof that still needed thatching, or the cracked
window courtesy of the neighbor boy Cillian and his goat. By some
miracle, her work had captured the eye of the Prince Regent of Avaland
himself.
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