A Story Unwritten

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"Cora is headstrong, adventurous, and utterly charming...A captivating fairytale adaptation..." - Kirkus Reviews "I believe in magic. I believed even before my brothers sprouted wings and flew away." A retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Wild Swans set in Oklahoma in 1925. Eleven-year-old Cora, a woefully unladylike and impetuous oil baron's daughter, can think of nothing but avoiding the dreaded Boston Academy for Admirable Young Ladies. The sudden demand that she become a fine young lady has set her carefree life off-kilter. But her plans to prevent it are interrupted when a fortune-hunting medium with a knack for potions cons her way into her father's life. Cora unmasks the woman, but it makes no difference. After a whirlwind wedding, the medium turns Cora's six brothers into hawks and Cora escapes through the mansion's secret tunnels. Pestilence and calamity! Cora never wished for pursuit, danger, and brothers with feathers. All she wanted was