The Seller of Secrets
Inspired by historical Florence, Italy, and based on legends of the Renaissance-era Medici family, The Seller of Secrets is a YA romantasy novel with a sensory and elemental–based magic system.
On the mystical island of Bardia, Bell Asbury’s sister is dying. A girl with an extraordinary but volatile gift for fusing magical elixirs, Bell was eleven when she accidentally struck her sister, Roza, with a magic that left her with an incurable illness. Six years later, she overhears her sister’s fiancé buying illicit ingredients for a brainwashing elixir. Alarmed and infuriated, Bell tries to end the engagement, but Roza's fiancé is from a noble house, the sisters’ father is in debt, and their mother is eager to have a connection to a powerful family.
Desperate to find a cure for Roza’s disease and an antidote to the brainwashing elixir, Bell uncovers a tangled web of secrets that leads to a man called the Seller of Secrets and his plot to use the brainwashing elixir to force the entire island to obey him. Bell alone can create an antidote, but her experiments risk the sanity of those she loves.
Rian, an infuriatingly handsome spy, offers to help her defeat the Seller of Secrets. Although she knows Rian is a master of deception, Bell can’t stop herself from falling for him. But with so many things changing in her life, Bell doesn’t know who she can trust and who is working to control her gift.
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Book details
- Author
- Sheri Yutzy, Audrey Puente
- Imprint
- Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 352
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Ages
- 13-39
- Subjects
- Young Adult Fiction › Fantasy › Romance
Young Adult Fiction › Fantasy › Historical
Young Adult Fiction › Romance › Fantasy - Topics
- renaissance fantasy · italian fantasy · romantasy · elemental magic · artisan magic · sensory magic · cosimo de medici · 15th century fantasy
- ISBN-13
- 9798887981703 (Paperback)9798887981697 (Hardcover)
About the author
Sheri Yutzy lives in a small Ohio town in a nineteenth century Italianate home with her musician husband and four beautiful children. When she’s not writing, she’s tending her garden, baking something, or pulling her youngest children in their wagon. Find Sheri online at Instagram @sheriyutzyauthor, Facebook @sheriyutzy, or on her website at sheriyutzy.com