Margie Fuston writes young adult fiction, often with a speculative bent. Her published work includes The Revenant Games.
Cruel Illusions
Cruel Illusions
Synopsis
Ava Perry has spent a decade preparing to kill the vampire who murdered her mother, a truth she has never shared with her younger brother Parker. Stuck in the foster system and running out of time before the siblings are separated, she stumbles into a hidden magic show where the illusions are impossible to explain.
The magicians backstage tell her the truth: their power is real, it runs in her blood too, and they will teach her to use it. The price is a competition, a test of showmanship and nerve in which the stakes are lethal and the line between illusion and reality keeps slipping.
Margie Fuston writes a standalone dark fantasy that treats magic as performance, fed by an audience's belief, and refuses to draw a clean moral line between the magicians and the vampires they have warred with for millennia.
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Characters
Ava PerryProtagonist
An eighteen-year-old in foster care training to hunt the vampire who killed her mother.
Parker PerrySupporting
Ava's younger brother, whom she is trying to protect.
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Cruel IllusionsHardcover, 2022
512 pages
Margaret K. McElderry BooksISBN: 9781665902106
