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. (Mar.The thrilling first book in a YA fantasy trilogy for fans of Red Queen. Her dazzling narration creates a dark and intriguing world that fans of both Jane Austen–style drawing room novels and the supernatural will enjoy. Voice actor Hardingam emphasizes Anna’s yearning and conflicted emotions, and she is especially gifted at creating unique character voices with an endless array of authentic accents: the upper-class British nobility, cockney servants, a Scottish revolutionary, Anna’s Hungarian cousins and elderly grandmother, and Austrian officials, as well as ghoulish supernatural creatures with unearthly voices. But once there, she discovers that the Luminate are artificially keeping magic for themselves and that there is a resistance movement dedicated to freeing magic for all to use-and Anna’s special gift may be the key, if she is willing to join them. After ruining her sister’s debutante spell, she is sent to Hungary to live with her exiled grandmother. But Anna has no magic of her own, only the ability to break others’ spells, which makes her the black sheep of the family. In this new Regency fantasy series set in 19th-century London, 16-year-old Anna is a member of the Luminate, the British nobility whose magic powers solidify their place as the ruling class.

Blood Rose Rebellion by Rosalyn Eves