Lia and Beckett's Abracadabra
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Amy Noelle Parks’s Lia and Beckett’s Abracadabra is a star-crossed YA rom-com that has the charm of Love and Gelato and the magic of Now You See Me.
Seventeen-year-old Lia Sawyer is thrilled to get a mysterious invitation from her grandmother to compete in a stage magic contest––even though her parents object. But she’s going to be judged by a bunch of old-school magicians who think that because she’s a girl, her only magical talents lie in wearing sparkly dresses, providing distractions, and getting sawed, crushed, or stretched.
And Lia can’t ask her grandmother for help because she’s disappeared, leaving behind only her best magic tricks, a few obscure clues, and an order to stay away from Blackwell boys, the latest generation of a rival magic family. Lia totally plans to follow her grandmother’s rule––until the cute boy she meets on the beach turns out to be Beckett Blackwell, son of the biggest old guard magical family there is.
Witty and romantic, Lia and Beckett’s Abracadabra is a YA rom-com with a magical twist!
“The romance sizzles with slow-burn longing . . . The author crafts captivating descriptions of the various magic acts and ensures that even the supporting characters have fleshed-out storylines . . . An enchanting enemies-to-lovers romance.” —Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
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When 17-year-old Lia Sawyer receives a letter from her grandmother Matilda—who has been missing for several years and was once a famous magician's assistant—inviting her to spend the summer taking part in a stage magic competition in Mirror Lake, Wis., Lia simply sees it as an opportunity to have some fun. But Matilda's invitation comes with a challenge to win, especially since the competition's prize is control of the Starlight Theater, which has been in the Sawyer family for years. Her opposition most prominently includes the Blackwell boys—manipulative mentalist Elliot and his cousin, talented but disillusioned Beckett—who are grandsons of Matilda's former husband and business partner turned rival. As Lia confronts the inherent sexism and underlying unscrupulousness of Mirror Lake's magician community, she struggles to balance her own passion for magic with her growing attraction to Beckett. Lia and Beckett's chemistry is no illusion; Parks (The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-Kiss) deftly merges their gentle blossoming romance with the mystique of conjuring, mind games, and card tricks to deliver an intriguing look into the behind-the-scenes world of stage magic, couched in a playful romantic comedy. Characters cue as white. Ages 12–up.
