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In C.L. Polk’s sparkling third novel, The Mid­night Bargain, Beatrice Clayborn is a young woman with a terrible problem. As a debutante participating in “Bargaining Season,” she must capture the attention of an appropriately wealthy and suitable man who will propose marriage and thus save her family from an ever-increasing threat of poverty and social humiliation (her father has made one too many poor investment decisions). To anyone familiar with Jane Austen, this scenario will read as quite familiar, but Polk writes historical fantasy and thus Beatrice’s situa­tion has a magical spin. In her nation of Chasland, women are collared by their husbands to block their magic and prevent a spirit from taking the body of their unborn children. Men are free to perform all manner of magic, while women lose all their power in trade for the privilege of child­birth. Beatrice has been studying magic in secret in hopes of dodging the grimness of the collar. But now the season is upon

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