Masks and Shadows

Masks and Shadows by Stephanie Burgis

An alternate history featuring Haydn and Prince Esterházy, and also a secret society that dabbles in alchemy and worse -- which works.
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multi-stage masquerade, and motives

Was pondering the possibility of different kinds of magical beings hiding themselves from the mundane -- and each other -- and realized that a selective withdrawal did not have to mean hiding from each other.

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