![]() ![]() ![]() I've rarely been so happy to offer a cover quote for a novel. Can Chiara trust him to keep her secrets…-even to love her…-or will he prove to be her most treacherous enemy of all? ![]() ![]() Beside her walks the prince’s mysterious English alchemist Ruanno, her friend and teacher, driven by his own dark goals. Witness to sensuous intrigues and brutal murder plots, Chiara seeks a safe path through the labyrinth of Medici tyranny and deception. Undaunted, she seizes her chance to pursue undreamed-of power of her own. Instead she is trapped in his household-imprisoned and forcibly initiated as a virgin acolyte in Francesco’s quest for power and immortality. 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.Ĭhiara 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. Elizabeth Loupas returns with her most ambitious historical novel yet, a story of intrigue, passion, and murder in the Medici Court.Īpril, 1574, Florence, Italy. ![]()
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