num_pages: 356
description: Harry Houdinis one-time apprentice holds fantastic secrets about the greatest illusionist in the world. But someone wants to claim them . . . or silence her before she can reveal them on her own.Boston 1926. Jenny Wren Lockhart is a bold eccentriceven for a female vaudevillian. As notorious for her inherited wealth and gentlemans dress as she is for her unsavory upbringing in the back halls of a vaudeville theater Wren lives in a world that challenges all manner of conventions.In the months following Houdinis death Wren is drawn into a web of mystery surrounding a spiritualist by the name of Horace Stapleton a man defamed by Houdinis ardent debunking of fraudulent mystics in the years leading up to his death. But in a public illusion that goes terribly wrong one man is dead and another stands charged with his murder. Though hes known as one of her teachers greatest critics Wren must decide to become the one thing she never wanted to be: Stapletons defender.Forced to team up with the newly formed FBI Wren races against time and an unknown enemy all to prove the innocence of a hated man. In a world of illusion of the vaudeville halls that showcase the flamboyant and the strange Wrens carefully constructed world threatens to collapse around her. Layered with mystery illusion and the artistry of the Jazz Ages bygone vaudeville era The Illusionists Apprentice is a journey through love and loss and the underpinnings of faith on each lifes stage.
language: English
title: The Illusionist's Apprentice
publisher: HarperCollins Christian Publishing