Waiting On Wednesday: The Illusionist's Apprentice

September 28, 2016

Waiting On Wednesday is hosted by The Breaking the Spine. 
Each week offers the opportunity to spotlight an up-and-coming release that you are most excited about!

Waiting On:
Title: The Illusionist's Apprentice
Author: Kristy Cambron
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Publication Date: March 2017

Synopsis:
From GoodReads
Harry Houdni’s one-time apprentice holds fantastic secrets about the greatest illusionist in the world. But someone wants to claim them . . . or silence her before she can reveal them on her own.

Boston, 1926. Jenny “Wren” Lockhart is a bold eccentric—even for a female vaudevillian. As notorious for her inherited wealth and gentleman’s dress as she is for her unsavory upbringing in the back halls of a vaudeville theater, Wren lives in a world that challenges all manner of conventions.

In the months following Houdini’s death, Wren is drawn into a web of mystery surrounding a spiritualist by the name of Horace Stapleton, a man defamed by Houdini’s ardent debunking of fraudulent mystics in the years leading up to his death. But in a public illusion that goes terribly wrong, one man is dead and another stands charged with his murder. Though he’s known as one of her teacher’s greatest critics, Wren must decide to become the one thing she never wanted to be: Stapleton’s defender.

Forced to team up with the newly formed FBI, Wren races against time and an unknown enemy, all to prove the innocence of a hated man. In a world of illusion, of the vaudeville halls that showcase the flamboyant and the strange, Wren’s carefully constructed world threatens to collapse around her.

Layered with mystery, illusion, and the artistry of the Jazz Age’s bygone vaudeville era, The Illusionist’s Apprentice is a journey through love and loss and the underpinnings of faith on each life’s stage.
Why I'm Waiting:
I have read the first 2 books by Kristy Cambron and just loved them! I can't wait to see what this book has to offer. This story looks like it will focus on a time and people that is really not seen a lot of in fiction and I can't wait to read it! I love different settings and time.


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