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    "description": "Dear reader, you are cordially invited to the strangest wedding of the year . . .\n\nIt\u2019s May 1941, and the war is in full swing. Yet in the quiet village of Woodville in rural Kent a happy event is on the horizon, as Faye Bright interrupts her training with the British Secret Service to return home and marry her true love, Bertie.\n\nBut as preparations get underway, a ghostly premonition throws a spanner in the works. Who is the Corn Bride, and is her burning visage a warning, or a threat to the happiest day of Faye\u2019s life?\n\nAs Faye and the witches investigate, it\u2019s soon apparent that there\u2019s much more on the line than dress fittings, cake and Bertie\u2019s stag do. For an old enemy is stirring in the shadows, bent on vengeance. And he\u2019s not above crashing a wedding to get it.\n\nWill the happy couple make it to the church on time? Or, after all she\u2019s survived, could it be getting hitched that finally spells Faye\u2019s doom?\n\nEmbark upon an adventure that weaves together romance, undead Nazis, pensioner spies, spectral schoolchildren and a talking budgerigar, and still somehow manages to prove that love is the most powerful magic of all.",
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