![]() ![]() ![]() 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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