Miranda in Milan

After her rescue in Shakespeare's The Tempest, Miranda expected to live happily ever after in Naples with her love, Ferdinand. Instead, she finds herself in Milan, where everyone treats her like an outsider—she is forced to hide her face and is completely separated from everyone she has ever known and loved. Ferdinand never writes, her father is never present, and her "happy ever after" feels like a nightmare. Until she meets the enchanting—and magical—Dorothea, who awakens in her things that she never knew existed. The two of them try to uncover the mystery behind Miranda's mother's death and the plots of her father and perhaps find themselves along the way. Weaving magic back into Shakespeare's final work, this novel is filled with love, excitement, and mystery. Fans of the Bard will enjoy seeing familiar characters in new ways. Miranda leaps off of the page and will inspire readers to revisit the source material. At times the attempts to re-create Elizabethan phrasing feels inauthentic, but the story doesn't suffer for it.