title: Sleight of Hand: Bite Back Book 1 (Volume 1)
author:  Mark Henwick 
description: <b><i><span>Charles de Lint, in a review of the series for Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction:</span></i></b><br /><b>"They represent some of the best the field has to offer."</b>
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  A Sleight of Hand
  
  
  
  
  
  Book 3.2, Birds of Paradise series
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Eliza Lloyd
  
  
  Copyright 2017
  
  
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  You might enjoy this book more if you’ve read The Trouble With Scots, Book
  3.1, in the Body of Knowledge series. It is the first book in which I’ve
  included a cliffhanger, which is resolved in A Sleight of Hand—and that is
  partly how the title for this book came into being.
  
  Body of Knowledge stories are all historical settings, in the Regency period,
  but with a proto-science/paranormal edge.
  
  Please respect this author’s work. If you have obtained a free copy, you have
  obtained an illegal copy. My books are reasonably priced and available at all
  major retailers.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  
  Gelasia Cabot stared at the laird of Dunbar Castle, shocked by the change in
  the once fine figure of Eadan MacMurrough. This was the man who loved her,
  according to Isadora Beckwith, the Lady Latham, who’d arrived suddenly,
  bearing the strangest news.
  
  But t