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Suspected of witchcraft and reeling from news of her beloved brother's death in World War I, Celandine flees the torments of her boarding school classmates and escapes to the world of the "little people," themselves in danger and in need of her aid. Augarde's prequel to The Various is slow and lengthy but dramatic, leaving unresolved questions for the trilogy's conclusion.