![]() ![]() Will you share with us how that weekend in turn inspired you as you wrote The Villa? In the summer of 1816, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley participated in an impromptu, multiday creative jam session near Lake Geneva, Switzerland, that ended up inspiring seminal works of gothic horror, including Mary’s groundbreaking Frankenstein. Will she learn something new about the decades-old crime? Or will her sudden obsession distract her from the danger still lurking? While there, the villa’s tragic past piques Emily’s interest. In the present, longtime yet somewhat estranged friends Emily and Chess go to the very same villa to catch up and hopefully kick off some new projects. But Pierce ended up dead, earning the villa a sinister reputation and the vacationers a complicated legacy. Rock megastar Noel Gordon invited musician Pierce Sheldon, plus Pierce’s girlfriend, Mari, and her stepsister, Lara, for a summer of creativity, love and fun. ![]() In the 1970s, a beautiful mansion in Orvieto, Italy, was the site of a brutal killing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The story follows Galadriel “El” Higgins, a tremendously powerful sorceress with an affinity for world-destroying dark magic who’s spent her school career fighting her worst impulses-and at times the school itself-to choose the path of light. Full of monstrous creatures (known as “mals”) constantly trying to eat them alive on their way to class, the students must make uncomfortable, often class-based compromises to live until graduation, as the rich kids with better access to power and weapons take advantage of the less fortunate and the kids who don’t come from established enclaves make all manner of moral trade-offs to survive. Yet, if there is any series worth dipping your toe pack into this particular subgenre for, it is Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy, a compelling and morally complex saga about a magical school that trains up young witches and wizards by requiring them to fight for their lives from the moment they arrive. Let’s just say it’s not a surprise that a lot of people have decided to simply read other things. After all, rightly or wrongly, most of them still exist in the shadow of the Harry Potter franchise, and given everything that has happened in the real world since that fictional one concluded, well. Many fantasy fans these days likely have some understandably mixed feelings about stories set in magical boarding schools. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While a student, Penman researched and wrote The Sunne in Splendour that chronicled the life of Richard III. She also received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Rutgers University School of Law, and worked as a tax lawyer before becoming a writer. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in history. Career īorn in New York City, Penman grew up in New Jersey. Penman died from pneumonia on January 22, 2021, at the age of 75. Critics have praised her meticulous research of settings and events presented in her fiction, as well as the characterizations. Her work was generally well received, with the more recent novels reaching the New York Times Bestseller List. When the manuscript was stolen she started again and rewrote the book. The Sunne in Splendour, her first book, is a stand-alone novel about King Richard III of England and the Wars of the Roses. Her novels and mysteries are set in England, France, and Wales, and are about English and Welsh royalty during the Middle Ages. ![]() In addition, she wrote four medieval mysteries, the first of which, The Queen's Man, was a finalist in 1996 for the Best First Mystery Edgar Award. ![]() She was best known for the Welsh Princes trilogy and the Plantagenet series. 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