Smoke & Mirrors by Barry Jonsberg

Smoke & Mirrors by Barry JonsbergI don't know about love. I suspect the emotion that others apparently feel all the time is just . . . absent from me. Like there's an ingredient missing from the recipe. The possible exception is Gran. Grace cares about only two things: performing magic and her cantankerous gran. Gran shares her prickly personality and spiky sense of humour, and she's the only one Grace lets into her tightly locked heart until she meets Simon, a schoolmate who

more reluctantly

a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brutal Nazi occupation finds herself caught between her traitor of a brother and the man she loves

Here you'll find inventive brunch ideas like a Tom Yum Bloody Mary

their eyes filled with consternation

but this dangerous rescue asked so much more of them

her history and her present

and spending too much time up in the hills

as Elsa is starting to learn

and Elders who are wood carvers

The ngangkari currently employed at NPY Women's Council deliver treatments to people across a tri-state region of about 350

and he can run like the clappers

and the people he calls family