![]() ![]() Together, they journey to the capital as Teo struggles to simultaneously learn how to master her powers and kept her growing feelings for Cielo at bay. ![]() That's where Cielo, a shape-shifting multi-gendered strega who becomes Teo's magic tutor, comes in. She has to actually transform into a boy. In order to save her beloved father, Teo must travel to the capital as a DiSangro son, but a disguise isn't going to cut it. Teo keeps her true identity, and her true abilities, hidden from the world, but when the new ruler of Vinalia sends poised letters to the heads of the five families that have controlled the land for generations, including her own father, the young woman is forced to act. Set in a magical variation of 19th-century Italy, The Brilliant Deathtells the story of Teodora DiSangro, a mafia don's daughter and a strega - wielder of magic - who uses her powers to secretly turn her family's enemies into decorative objects. Bustle is excited to reveal its stunning cover and exclusive excerpt from the upcoming YA novel, below. A unique mashup of fantasy, historical fiction, and queer romance, the latest from the author of Entangled and Echo After Echo sounds like the kind of book you won't be able to stop talking about. Are you enchanted by fantasy novels, fascinated with mafia families, and always on the look out for original queer love stories? Then there is a new young adult book with your name on it hitting shelves this fall: Amy Rose Capetta's The Brilliant Death, out this October from Viking Books. ![]()
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