The Reluctant Heiress

Spring, 1922

Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess – who’s given up her duties to follow her heart, working for nothing backstage at the Viennese opera. No one there knows who she really is, or that a fairy-tale castle is missing its princess, and Tessa is determined to keep it that way.

But secret lives can be complicated, and when a wealthy, handsome Englishman discovers this bewitching urchin backstage, Tessa’s two lives collide – and in escaping her inheritance, she finds her destiny. . .

Magic Flutes (originally published as The Reluctant Heiress) is an enchanting story of love, music and secret princesses from Eva Ibbotson.