The Familiar

- Leigh Bardugo

Historical Fiction/Fantasy

Set in the Spanish Golden Age, servant ​​Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her awful job. When her mistress discovers Luzia has powers, she demands that Luzia uses her talent to parlay the family’s social standing. Things take a dangerous turn when Antonio Perez, the disgraced secretary to Spain’s king, pulls Luzia into his world where the line between magic, science and fraud is paper thin. As more people discover Luzia’s magic, she also fears that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition’s wrath. She has to take all the help that she can in order to survive, including enlisting an embittered immortal familiar who has even deadlier secrets of his own.

Author: Leigh Bardugo - #1 NYTimes bestselling author and creator of fantasy series that spawned its own TV series on Netflix.