One For All

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Age 12 to 18

A smart, historical adventure and gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness secretly trains as a Musketeer and discovers secrets, sisterhood, and self-love.

Tania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand. Everyone thinks her dizziness makes her just 'a sick girl', but she wants to be a fencer like her father, a former Musketeer. Then Papa is mysteriously murdered, and as his dying wish, he sends Tania to finishing school.

But LAcadmie des Maries is so much more. Its a training ground for new Musketeers: women who are socialites on the surface, but who seduce men into giving up secrets and dont shy away from sword fights.

Tania finally feels like she's found her sisters, a place where she belongs. But when she's torn between duty and dizzying emotion, she must decide where her loyalties lie...or risk losing everything.

This is a whirlwind debut about found family, the strength that goes beyond the body, and the power of self-love.

Author Bio

Lillie Lainoff is the founder of Disabled Kidlit Writers and the winner of the 2019 LA Review Literary Award for Short Fiction. Her non-fiction has been featured in The Washington Post Outlook, amongst other places. She received her MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia. One for All, her debut novel, will be published by FSG in March 2022. Lillie tweets @lillielainoff