Wolves and Brioches

In 18th century Paris, a half-magic girl and a fashionable wolf save the city, and maybe the world, in a story of friendship, magic, and mouthwatering pastries.

Paris, 1765. When Odette de l’Estoile breaks into her uncle’s library, she meets an elegantly dressed wolf sitting in an armchair and reading a book. They quickly become best friends.

Louis is no ordinary wolf, as you might have guessed. But unlike the rest of his family, he doesn’t take joy in tricking anyone and he doesn’t particularly cherish his ancestors’ exploits involving three pigs or a girl in a red cape.

Odette doesn’t have an easy life with her family, either. Powerful magicians, the de l’Estoiles generally sneer at her, since she’s only half magic, not to mention entirely forbidden from learning any spells.

Still, the two friends find plenty to enjoy in Paris, including theater-going, soirées with some of the greatest minds of the Enlightenment, clandestine spell-casting, and the occasional necessary robbery.

But as time goes on, another strange wolf comes into their lives. The legendary Beast of Gévaudan is responsible for killing nearly a hundred innocent people deep in the French countryside. When an evil magician plans to use the creature to change the world (and not for the better), Odette and Louis find themselves unexpectedly caught up in the plot.

They may, in fact, be the only ones who can stop him.

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Soar into the world of Wolves and Brioches, with maps and images from 1760's Paris.