<p>From the author of the Mask of Shadows duology comes this fast-paced YA fantasy, where two young women must trade lives, work together to stay alive, and end a war caused by magic and greed <br>Emilie des Marais is more at home holding scalpels than embroidery needles and is desperate to escape her noble roots to serve her country as a physician. But society dictates a noble lady cannot perform such gruesome work.<br>Annette Boucher, overlooked and overworked by her family, wants more from life than her humble beginnings and is desperate to be trained in magic. So when a strange noble girl offers Annette the chance of a lifetime, she accepts.<br>Emilie and Annette swap lives¿Annette attends finishing school as a noble lady to be trained in the ways of divination, while Emilie enrolls to be a physician''s assistant, using her natural magical talent to save lives.<br>But when their nation instigates a terrible war, Emilie and Annette come together to help the rebellion unearth the tru