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"In 1578 Hungary, sixteen-year-old Anna is elevated from scullery maid to chambermaid by the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth B?thory, falling completely under the Countess's spell until Anna realizes that she is not a friend but a prisoner of the increasingly cruel and murderous Elizabeth"--Provided by publisher.

In seventeenth-century Paris, Catherine Monvoisin reinvents herself as a fortune teller and sorceress and ascends to notoriety when she helps the Marquise de Montespan become the mistress of Louis XIV, leading to a dangerous and deadly rivalry with a young magician.