num_pages: 512
description: The Prestige meets What If Its Us in Before We Disappear a queer ahistorical fantasy set during the 1909 Seattle AlaskaYukonPacific Exposition where the two assistants of two ambitious magicians find themselves falling in love amidst a bitter rivalry designed to tear them apart.Jack Nevins clever trickery and moral flexibility have served him well his entire lifemaking him the perfect assistant to the Enchantress one of the most well-known stage magicians in early-twentieth-century Europe. Without Jacks steady supply of stolen tricks and copycat sleight-of-hand illusions the Enchantresss fame would have burned out long agonot that she would ever admit it.But when theyre forced to flee the continent for America the Enchantress finds a new audience in Seattle at the 1909 AlaskaYukonPacific Worlds Fair Exposition. She and Jack are set to make a fortune until a new magician arrives on the scene. Performing tricks that defy the imagination Laszlos act threatens to overshadow the Enchantress and co-opt her audience. Jack has no choice but to hunt for the secrets behind Laszlos otherworldly illusionsbut what he uncovers isnt at all what he expected.What makes Laszlos tricks possible is unbelievably a boy that can seemingly perform real magic. Wilhelms abilities defy all the laws of physics. His talents are no clever sleights-of-hand. But even though Laszlo and Wilhelms act threatens to destroy the life Jack and the Enchantress have built Jack and Wilhelm have near-instant connection. As the rivalry between the Enchantress and Laszlo grows increasingly dangerous and dire Jack finds he has to choose between the woman who gave him a life and the boy who is offering him love. It's a new star-crossed romance about the magic of first love from acclaimed author Shaun David Hutchinson.
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title: Before We Disappear
publisher: HarperTeen