num_pages: 352
description: For Teodora DiSangro a mafia dons daughter family is fate.All her life Teodora has hidden the fact that she secretly turns her familys enemies into music boxes mirrors and other decorative objects. After all everyone in Vinalia knows that stregaswielders of magicare figures out of fairytales. Nobody believes theyre real.Then the Capo the lands new ruler sends poisoned letters to the heads of the Five Families that have long controlled Vinalia. Four lie dead and Teos beloved father is gravely ill. To save him Teo must travel to the capital as a DiSangro sonnot merely disguised as a boy but transformed into one. Enter Cielo a strega who can switch back and forth between male and female as effortlessly as turning a page in a book. Teo and Cielo journey together to the capital and Teo struggles to master her powers and to keep her growing feelings for Cielo locked in her heart. As she falls in love with witty irascible Cielo Teo realizes how much of life shes missed by hiding her true nature. But she cant forget her mission and the closer they get to the palace the more sinister secrets they uncover about whats really going on in their beloved countryand the more determined Teo becomes to save her family at any cost.
language: English
title: The Brilliant Death
publisher: Viking