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description:  With Miranda in Milan debut author Katharine Duckett reimagines the consequences of Shakespeares The Tempest casting Miranda into a Milanese pit of vipers and building a queer love story that lifts off the page in whirlwinds of feeling.After the tempest after the reunion after her father drowned his books Miranda was meant to enter a brave new world. Naples awaited her and Ferdinand and a throne. Instead she finds herself in Milan in her fathers castle surrounded by hostile servants who treat her like a ghost. Whispers cling to her like spiderwebs whispers that carry her dead mothers name. And though he promised to give away his power Milan is once again contorting around Prosperos dark arts.With only Dorothea her sole companion and confidant to aid her Miranda must cut through the mystery and find the truth about her father her mother and herself.Love and lust mothers and monsters magicians and masked balls all delivered with Shakespearean panache. Nicola Griffith author of HildMiranda in Milan is somehow both utterly charming and perfectly sinister and altogether delightful. A pleasure for any lover of romance myth and magicwhether or not they're fans of the Bard. Cherie Priest author of Boneshaker and I Am Princess XAt the Publisher's request this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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title: Miranda in Milan
publisher: Tor.com