A Recipe for Magic

by Kat Howard, Fran Wilde

Overview

The B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog presents an original short story co-authored by World Fantasy Award nominee Kat Howard and Nebula Award nominee Fran Wilde.

At the Night & Day Bakery, spells are baked right into the sweets, cakes, and pies--sugar magic for joy, grains of patience, dark as chocolate.

Lux's mother taught her three recipes, with three spells baked inside. Ever since, she's haunted strange cities' sweet shops and cafés, seeking the familiar smells. When she found them, she'd lied so hard her teeth ached in the telling: "Yes, I have experience, yes I understand this is a certain kind of bakery, let me tell you my favorite original recipe."

When Esmé agrees to give her a job at the Night & Day Bakery, Lux thinks she's found home again. But regret clings to her like the smell of smoke, and nothing ruins a bake like the smell of regret.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158570544
Publisher:	B&N SFF Originals
Publication date:	11/09/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Sales rank:	535,062
File size:	887 KB

About the Author

KAT HOWARD’s short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, anthologized in best of and annual best of collections, and performed on NPR. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Roses and Rot. She lives in New Hampshire, and you can find her on twitter at @KatWithSword.

FRAN WILDE is an author and technology consultant. In 2015, her first novel, Updraft, accomplished the rare feat of winning the Andre Norton Award for Best Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy while also being nominated for the Best Novel Nebula Award. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's, Nature, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Wilde also blogs about food and genre at Cooking the Books, the popular social-parenting website GeekMom, and at The Washington Post.