For Teodora DiSangro, a mafia don\u2019s daughter, family is fate.<\/p>\n

All her life, Teodora has hidden the fact that she secretly turns her family\u2019s enemies into music boxes, mirrors, and other decorative objects. After all, everyone in Vinalia knows that stregas\u2014wielders of magic\u2014are figures out of fairytales. Nobody believes they\u2019re real.<\/p>\n

Then the Capo, the land\u2019s new ruler, sends poisoned letters to the heads of the Five Families that have long controlled Vinalia. Four lie dead and Teo\u2019s beloved father is gravely ill. To save him, Teo must travel to the capital as a DiSangro son\u2014not merely disguised as a boy, but transformed into one.<\/p>\n

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 she\u2019s missed by hiding her true nature. But she can\u2019t forget her mission, and the closer they get to the palace, the more sinister secrets they uncover about what\u2019s really going on in their beloved country\u2014and the more determined Teo becomes to save her family at any cost.<\/p>\n

Representation Includes<\/h4>\n

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• Genderqueer protagonist<\/li>\n
• Genderfluid love interest<\/li>\n
• See this interview with the author where she discusses it being ownvoices<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
  Content Warnings<\/div>

  Abuse, torture, forced marriage, murder\/death, assassination, slavery, sexism, anti-queer remarks, child abandonment, organized crime, gore, domestic abuse, implied animal abuse and death, loss of a loved one, suicide, nudity<\/div>