Books like Bella by Annadora Perillo

What happens when someone unleashes the power of their desire while defying the great law of the Universe?  Bella is a tale of love and witchcraft set in the tiny, Italian, star-shaped city of Sabbioneta. Caught in a witch’s spell, a girl dreams of escape. But words of magic have been spoken by someone with power, and the series of events set in motion by the prophecy is bound to continue until the pattern of enchantment is complete. The novel weaves the multigenerational story of a family and the etiology of a curse while delving into themes of romance and redemption, death, resurrection, transformation, and the numinous buoyancy of the spirit. Within this timeless narrative of magic and karma, of sleeping beauties and awakening princesses, the characters are compelled to escape or transcend the convent walls and castle towers of their existence, wars, oppression, and even the bonfires of the Inquisition for which they are destined—because they are women, witches, wizards, dreamers. “Let the fairest have it.” —E. Nesbit, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood

First publish date: 2024