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Ambra Valmori pensa che i suoi unici problemi siano l’imminente esame di archeologia persiana e la competizione spietata con il suo odiato rivale accademico, Ismael Sagredo. Ma gli astri hanno altri piani per il suo destino. Nel giro di una notte scopre che la magia esiste ed è ovunque intorno a lei, che i professori dell’Academia delle arti magiche di Seledia la considerano una minaccia alla loro segretezza e, peggio ancora, che il brillante mago che sarà costretto a farle da maestro è proprio Ismael.

I'm abducted from Earth and sold to a panel of high judges - important, wealthy men partly responsible for punishing and sentencing aliens who break the law and protecting those who obey. Unfortunately, there are no laws that protect abducted humans. When I kill one of the depraved high judges, I have two choices - stay and face whatever hell of a life his friends subject me to or run and sneak aboard the transport ship bound for the worst prison planet in all the worlds. Stygian. I run.

Thornton W. Burgess was a bird-watching, berry-picking student of nature, who took up writing children's stores including those collected in "Old Mother West Wind 'Where' Stories" (1918). He writes about talking animals, but his characters remain true to their real-life counterparts. Each story explains how Old Mother Nature gives special attention to each creature's needs -- where Grandfather Frog got his big mouth, for example, and where Mr. Quack the duck got his webbed feet.