“It has a lot of swords,” Lainoff laughs. Her debut novel One for All is a gender-bent reimagining of The Three Musketeers that not only puts a feminist spin on a traditionally male-heavy classic but one that places a chronically ill girl at its center, giving her precisely the sort of whirlwind adventure that characters like her all too infrequently get to have. “But I don’t think I knew how powerful that occupation could be and the ways in which it could intersect with activism.” “I always wanted to be a writer and as a little kid, I knew that,” she says. Includes an author's note about her personal experience with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome.Lillie Lainoff may have always wanted to be an author, but it took her a little longer to realize how truly impactful-and necessary-her voice could be. Lillie Lainoff's debut novel is a fierce, whirlwind adventure about the depth of found family, the strength that goes beyond the body, and the determination it takes to fight for what you love. Torn between duty and dizzying emotion, Tania will have to decide where her loyalties lie…or risk losing everything she’s ever wanted. He’s kind, charming-and might have information about what really happened to her father. But then she meets Étienne, her target in uncovering a potential assassination plot. With her newfound sisters at her side, Tania feels that she has a purpose, that she belongs. And they don’t shy away from a sword fight. It’s a secret training ground for new Musketeers: women who are socialites on the surface, but strap daggers under their skirts, seduce men into giving up dangerous secrets, and protect France from downfall.

But L’Académie des Mariées, Tania realizes, is no finishing school. His dying wish? For Tania to attend finishing school. Then Papa is brutally, mysteriously murdered.

Everyone thinks her near-constant dizziness makes her weak, nothing but “a sick girl.” But Tania wants to be strong, independent, a fencer like her father-a former Musketeer and her greatest champion.

Tania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand. One for All is a gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness trains as a Musketeer and uncovers secrets, sisterhood, and self-love. “There are no limits to the will-and the strength-of this unique female hero.” - Tamora Pierce, writer of the Song of the Lioness and the Protector of the Small quartets

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