
Genre:
Fantasy
Themes:
Found Family
Historical
Magic
Saving the World
Heat Level:
Fade to Black (sex scenes are mostly implied and use euphemistic language)
Archetypes:
Immigrant / Refugee
Magician
Musician / Pianist
Sorcerer / Wizard / Alchemist
Teacher / Professor
Geographic Location:
Continental Europe
Setting:
Broadway / Theater
Historical
Kingdom / Realm
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Bi or Pansexual
Lesbian
Protagonist Identity:
Black / African American
Mother of Souls
The Alpennia Series, Book 3
By Heather Rose Jones
One saw magic but couldn't touch it, the other worked miracles without knowing it.
At last! Return to the enchanted realm of Alpennia for the eagerly awaited sequel to Daughter of Mystery and The Mystic Marriage.
All her life, Serafina Talarico has searched in vain for a place where she and her mystical talents belong. She never found it in Rome—the city of her birth—where her family’s Ethiopian origins marked them as immigrants. After traveling halfway across Europe to study with Alpennia’s Royal Thaumaturgist, her hopes of finding a home among Margerit Sovitre’s circle of scholars are dashed, for Serafina can perceive, but not evoke, the mystical forces of the Mysteries of the Saints and even Margerit can’t awaken her talents.
When Serafina takes lodgings with Luzie Valorin, widowed music teacher and aspiring composer, both their lives are changed forever. Luzie’s music holds a power to rival the Mysteries, and Serafina alone has the vision to guide her talents. For sorcery threatens the fate of Alpennia—indeed of all of Europe—locking the mountains in a malevolent storm meant to change the course of history. Alpennia’s mystic protections are under attack and the key to survival may lie in the unlikeliest of places: Luzie’s ambition to write an opera on the life of the medieval philosopher Tanfrit.