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Here you can learn about my two historical novels—Nonna's Book of Mysteries and Alchemy’s Daughter—and explore the mysterious world of alchemy.

In the middle ages, alchemists wearing long, flowing robes mixed colored liquids and metals in bubbling flasks over hot stoves in hidden laboratories. Today, alchemists wearing jeans and sneakers gaze into their computers and send text in secret code as they continue the quest for the philosopher’s stone, or the key to the transformation of lead into gold.

Within the secluded walls of MysticFiction, you will find activities and ideas which will help you get started with your own experiment. Wishing you joy as you look for gold and get acquainted with the Emilia and Santina, the heroines of the novels!

 

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I loved Nonna's Book of Mysteries! It's is a wonder of a book--exciting, mysterious, and wise. I'll long remember the courageous and determined Emilia who learns about choices and the consequences of choices, about the importance of struggle and perseverance, about loyalty, friendship, and love, amid the splendors of Renaissance Florence. I can't wait for another from Mary Osborne.

*Karen Cushman, Newberry Award Winner*, author of The Midwife's Apprentice

Nonna's Book of Mysteries is an exciting journey into the long lost world of art, mystery, and magic. Filled with twists, turns and surprises throughout, it will keep you riveted to your seat with every page. I couldn’t put it down. A marvelous read and one that will stay with you long after it is over.

Sonia Choquette
Best-selling author of Soul Lessons and Soul Purpose

Alchemy’s Daughter is a delightful and intriguing adventure, an absolute reading pleasure.

Caroline Myss
Best-selling author of Sacred Contracts, Anatomy of the Spirit, and Why People Don’t Heal