Mantchev makes her home on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state with her husband Angel, her daughter Amélie and four hairy miscreant dogs. In between report cards and drafting scripts for Winter and Spring productions, she wrote fiction. Her first professional short fiction sale was in 2002, and her debut trilogy sold in 2007. After graduation, she taught English at the Lycée Internationale de Los Angeles and created their Drama After School Program.

She won the Chancellor's Award For Undergraduate Research in Drama her senior year while studying in the Campuswide Honors Program. She received two scholarships to study drama at the University of California, Irvine. She wrote her first play in the fourth grade, and has been involved in theater ever since. She grew up in the small Northern California town of Ukiah. Lisa Mantchev is the author of the Theatre Illuminata series, including Perchance to Dream and Eyes Like Stars. Once again, LISA MANTCHEV has spun a tale like no other-full of romance, magic, adventure, and fairies, too-that readers won't want to put down, even after the curtain has closed. Who does Bertie love the most? And will her magic be powerful enough to save her once she enters the Sea Goddess's lair? Bertie's dreams are haunted by Nate, whose love for Bertie is keeping him alive, but in the daytime, it's Ariel who is tantalizingly close, and the one she is falling for. Along the way, they collect a sneak-thief, who has in his possession something most valuable, and meet The Mysterious Stranger, Bertie's father-and the creator of the scrimshaw medallion. She and her fairy sidekicks embark on a journey aboard the Thèâtre's caravan, using Bertie's word magic to guide them. When Nate is kidnapped and taken prisoner by the Sea Goddess, only Bertie can free him. Nate: Her suave and swashbuckling pirate, now in mortal peril.Īriel: A brooding, yet seductive, air spirit whose true motives remain unclear. And her magic cannot help her make a decision between. Bertie can make things happen by writing them, but outside the protective walls of the Thèâtre, nothing goes as planned. She is ready for the outside world.īut the outside world soon proves more topsy-turvy than any stage production. Now, she is the Mistress of Revels, the Teller of Tales, and determined to follow her stars. She knew the Players and their parts, but she didn't know that she, too, had magic. Growing up in the enchanted Thèâtre Illuminata, Beatrice Shakespeare Smith learned everything about every play ever written. From the critically acclaimed author of Eyes Like Stars

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