Phoenix and Ashes

The third novel in Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series reimagines Cinderella in a richly-detailed alternate 20th century England

Eleanor Robinson’s life had shattered when Father volunteered for the Great War, leaving her alone with a woman he had just married. Then the letter came that told of her father’s death in the trenches and though Eleanor thought things couldn’t get any worse, her life took an even more bizarre turn.

Dragged to the hearth by her stepmother Alison, El...