num_pages: 352
description: A YA historical fantasy set in nineteenth-century Denmark where secrets can kill and magic is a deadly gift.For Marit Olsen magic is all about strategy: it flows freely through her blood but every use leaves behind a deadly ice-like build-up within her veins called the Firn. Marit knows how dangerous it is to let too much Firn build upafter all it killed her sisterand she has vowed never to use her thread magic. But when Eve a fellow orphan whom Marit views like a little sister is adopted by the wealthy Helene Vestergaard Marit will do anything to stay by Eves side. She decides to risk the Firn and uses magic to secure a job as a seamstress in the Vestergaard household. But Marit has a second hidden agenda: her father died while working in the Vestergaards jewel minesand it might not have been an accident. The closer Marit gets to the truth about the Vestergaard family the more she realizes she and everyone shes come to love are in danger. When she finds herself in the middle of a treacherous deception that goes all the way up to the king of Denmark magic may be the only thing that can save herif it doesnt kill her first.
language: English
title: Splinters of Scarlet
publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers