![]() ![]() The college where her father is a professor of magic is close to the untamed wilderness that swarms with perilous creatures. The frontier promises a new beginning for Eff, away from constant teasing and ridicule from her extended family - and danger. ![]() After one intense episode in which five-year-old Eff's uncle tries to arrest her for being a thirteenth child, Eff's father decides to move the family away to the North Plains Territory. ![]() As a child, Eff gets blamed for anything that goes wrong: spilling soup, kicking balls astray, and losing hair ribbons. If the double-seven son possesses amazing abilities, then the thirteenth child will certainly wreak havoc and destruction on all those around them. While everyone dotes over Lan, they have turned a suspicious eye on his twin sister, Eff, the thirteenth child in the family. Lan Rothmer just happened to be born the seventh son of a seventh son, and his promising future awaits him, at least according to his large family. And everybody knows that the seventh son of a seventh son is a natural-born magician." Things come a little easier to him, all his life long.A lot of seventh sons go for magicians, because if there's one sort of work where luck is more useful than any other, it's making magic. "Everybody knows that a seventh son is lucky. ![]()
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