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The Alchemical Marriage

Mary Jo Putney

First published February 2004
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series The Guardian (Mary Jo Putney) .5

Set in 1588. Sir Adam Macrae, Scottish weather mage and Guardian, hates the English but must stop the Spanish Armada to fulfill his Guardian's oath to protect all of Britain. But he can't do it alone. His only chance is an "alchemical marriage" with mage and refugee Spanish Marrano Isabel de Cortes.<br> Adam and Isabel are ancestors of Duncan and Jean Macrae of <i>A Kiss of Fate</i> and <i>A Distant Magic.</i>

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