In this sweeping new series of Renaissance Italy, Bertrice
Small does it again with all the passion and historical
splendor that has captured the imagination of her legion of
fans?.
After her two elder sisters become the scandals of
Florence, Lucianna Pietro d'Angelo is in the difficult
position of finding a wealthy man who will have her for his
wife. She has little choice but to accept the proposal of an
aging bookseller a not entirely disagreeable union in which
Lucianna comforts the dear man in his final years. When he
passes away, she inherits his shop and, with it, a sizable
fortune.
Lucianna is content with comfortable widowhood until
Robert Minton, Earl of Lisle, visits her bookshop. The
Englishman is not only dashing and handsome he's a trusted
courtier of Henry VII.
The Pietro d'Angelos cannot deny the spark of attraction
between their daughter and the earl, so they scheme to send
her to London. There, Lucianna steps out of the shadow of
her quiet Florentine life, pursuing a love of which she
never dreamed and rising in London society all the way to
court of the new Tudor king.
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