The Blackwoods Ronald L. Smith the mage sworn to protect

the mage sworn to protect Nick until death

Abel buries himself in work until he is coerced by shadowy figures into designing a chess-playing automaton and delivering it to Constantinople to spy on the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts

and singular powers of perception about the world around her

The Blackwoods Ronald L. Smith the mage sworn to protectFrom Boston Globe Horn Book Awardwinning author Brandy Colbert comes the story of four generations of a Hollywood familyan unforgettable tale of ambition, fame, struggle, loss, and love in America. The Blackwoods. Everyone knows their name. Blossom Blackwood burst onto the silver screen in 1962, and in the decades that followed, she would become one of the most celebrated actors of our timeand the matriarch of the most famous Black family in