A Princess of Roumania is at once a vastly ambitious and passionately realized work of art, and immediately appealing in all the ways that the heart-tugging matter of high fantasy ought to be. Every page of this book holds something you couldn't have imagined and yet that strikes you as supremely right and satisfying. A huge achievement.

Many a girl may dream that she is realty a princess fostered by ordinary folk In the case of Miranda, however, this is literally true. Adopted in eastern Europe by an American couple, she has been brought up from childhood in a safe and quiet town in Massachusetts.

But unwittingly Miranda stands at the fulcrum of a deadly political and diplomatic battle between rival conjurers in an affernate world, a place of magic and intrigue that she is blissfuUy unaware of Having been hidden by her aunt in our own comfortable world, Miranda nevertheless has inklings of her past and her 'foreignness'. So here then is the story of how, accompanied by two close |fiends, she eventually returns to her true home.., and what she discovers there.

Her mysterious Aunt Aegypta... a mad baroness in Bucharest.,. the sinister alchemist holding her mother captive in Germany,.. as the story shifts between a familiar world and the mysterious 'Roumania', powerful forces are striving either to protect Mironda or ensnare her.