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NAL Trade
April 2014
On Sale: April 1, 2014
Featuring: Grand Duke Cosimo de’ Medici; Chiara Nerini
448 pages
ISBN: 0451418875
EAN: 9780451418876
Kindle: B00DMCPK5S
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Romance | Romance Historical | Historical
Elizabeth Loupas returns with her most ambitious historical
novel yet, a story of intrigue, passion, and murder in the
Medici Court... April, 1574, Florence, Italy. Grand Duke Cosimo de’ Medici
lies dying. The city is paralyzed with dread, for the next
man to wear the red lily crown will be Prince Francesco:
despotic, dangerous, and obsessed with alchemy. Chiara Nerini, the troubled daughter of an anti-Medici
bookseller, sets out to save her starving family by selling
her dead father’s rare alchemical equipment to the prince.
Instead she is trapped in his household—imprisoned and
forcibly initiated as a virgin acolyte in Francesco’s quest
for power and immortality. Undaunted, she seizes her chance
to pursue undreamed-of power of her own. Witness to sensuous intrigues and brutal murder plots,
Chiara seeks a safe path through the labyrinth of Medici
tyranny and deception. Beside her walks the prince’s
mysterious English alchemist Ruanno, her friend and teacher,
driven by his own dark goals. Can Chiara trust him to keep
her secrets…even to love her…or will he prove to be her most
treacherous enemy of all?
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