Tricks for Free
core novel 2018 InCryptid
Record
| First published | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.22 (5,064 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780756410407 |
Synopsis
Antimony Price continues undercover with a carnival of magicians, navigating dangerous secrets and a con targeting the troupe. Having left her family behind for her own protection, Antimony settles into life at a Florida amusement park among the Campbell Family Carnival's performers, using the cover to study sorcery under a teacher within the troupe while keeping her past and true identity hidden from her new companions. As she works to master her developing magical training, she also finds herself caught up in a scheme threatening the carnival itself, forcing her to weigh her obligation to protect the people who have taken her in against the secrets she still cannot afford to share with them.
Where it sits
- Universe: InCryptid
- Series: InCryptid core; position 7 of 15 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Seanan McGuire
Notes
- From the series record (InCryptid): Multi-generation cryptozoologist family (the Prices/Hayleighs) vs. the Covenant of St. George; DAW. A 16th novel is anticipated by some third-party listings but is not announced on the author's own bibliography page, and is not registered (Article 2). McGuire has also published 50+ further InCryptid short stories/novellas (anthologies, bonus content, Patreon); deliberately deferred as Expanded Canon out of scope, per the same scale-driven deferral this project already applied to Oz's Famous Forty continuation books.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series InCryptid: position 7 of 15: previous Magic for Nothing (2017) · next That Ain't Witchcraft (2019)
Sources
← InCryptid dossier · All universes
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