Flora Fyrdraaca: Flora Sedunga & Flora's Dare by Ysabeau S. Wilce (Very Good, 2009, HC, 691 pgs)

Used in very good condition: Dust jacket has light wear; pages are lightly discolored; no writing inside. ISBN 9781615231775

Flora Fyrdraaca knows taking shortcuts in Crackpot Hall can be risky. After all, when a House has eleven thousand decaying rooms that shift about at random, there's no telling where a person might end up. But it's not just household confusion that vexes Flora, what with Mamma always away being Commanding General of the Army, and Crackpot Hall too broken down to magickally provide the clean towels and hot waffles that are a Fyrdraaca's birthright.

Yet Flora is nothing if not a Girl of Spirit. So when she takes a forbidden shortcut and stumbles upon her family's biggest secret--Valefor, the banished Butler--she and her best friend Udo plunge happily into the grand adventure of restoring Valefor to his rightful (or so he says) position. If only Flora knew that meddling with a magickal being can go terribly awry--and that soon she will have to find a way to restore herself before it is Too Late.

Flora's Dare: Flora Fyrdraaca wants nothing more than to become a ranger, but first she must master the magickal—and dangerous—language of Gramatica. Such mastery will depend on expert instruction, unflinching confidence, and luck. Even if Flora can muster up the first two, luck is not a hallmark of the Fyrdraaca family.

And when the world Flora knows begins to crumble around her, her aspirations are sorely tested. Would a true ranger be intimidated by a vast tentacle crawling from the depths of a toilet? Be dismayed by the news that only she can stop the earthquakes threatening the city of Califa’s survival?

Saving her city is what any good ranger would do. Flora expects her mission to be difficult and perilous. Yet what this Girl of Spirit does not expect are the life-altering revelations that force her to ask the question: Who is Flora Fyrdraaca?