Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they finally found their way home and were sent to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children.

This is the story of what came first.

Jacqueline was her mother's perfect daughter polite and quiet, always dressed like a princess. If her mother seemed strict at times, it was because creating the perfect daughter required discipline.

Jillian was her father's ideal child adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tomboy. He might have preferred a son, but you work with what you have.

They were five when they learned that adults cannot always be trusted.

At twelve, they stepped down the impossible staircase and found out that pretending to know love is never enough to prepare you for a life filled with magic in a world full of mad scientists, death, and difficult choices.