Amy is sixteen, trans, and in the closet, and it sucks. But Amy is also a Scarlet, one of a group of magical girls who fight evil and protect their home of Beane County from the nefarious plots of the Warlock, and that absolutely, positively, does not suck one bit. When she raises her Briar Wand to the sky and calls forth the blessing of the goddess Adurathia, her ill-fitting boy's body is transformed into the beautiful, powerful elegance of Amaryllis Scarlet.
Amy loves being Amaryllis and wants to hold on to her for as long as she can. If only her magic was strong enough to keep her from crashing back into the person everyone else sees as Andy. She gets a handful of hours, and not much more.
It’s not great, but for now, Amy will take it.
But then the Warlock's dragon attacks her school and almost kills Rose of Sharon, the leader of the Scarlets, and everything starts to fall apart. Now it's up to Amy to try and hold her team together, keep the mysterious and intrusive County Commission off her back, and stop the Warlock from whatever he's plotting to do—all without blowing her secrets wide open to the whole world.
And maybe, just maybe, answer the question that’s been bothering her since forever: what’s outside of Beane County?
Genre: Fantasy
Amy loves being Amaryllis and wants to hold on to her for as long as she can. If only her magic was strong enough to keep her from crashing back into the person everyone else sees as Andy. She gets a handful of hours, and not much more.
It’s not great, but for now, Amy will take it.
But then the Warlock's dragon attacks her school and almost kills Rose of Sharon, the leader of the Scarlets, and everything starts to fall apart. Now it's up to Amy to try and hold her team together, keep the mysterious and intrusive County Commission off her back, and stop the Warlock from whatever he's plotting to do—all without blowing her secrets wide open to the whole world.
And maybe, just maybe, answer the question that’s been bothering her since forever: what’s outside of Beane County?
Genre: Fantasy
Used availability for Susan Jane Bigelow's Flight of the Scarlets