Award-winning historical fiction set in 16th-century Venice
A Brief Tale of the PlagueIn 14th-century Bruges, a young woman falls for a foreign silk dyer’s son as she weaves a tapestry for the duke. But as the Black Death casts its shadow over the city, what will become of the young lovers?...
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As the Black Death reaches its hand into a Venetian goldsmith’s shop, a young apprentice must make a difficult choice.Venice, 1610: “My uncle the goldsmith died less than an hour ago but the Plague Doctor is already at our door…”After the bu...
Venice, 1510. Maria Bartolini wants nothing more than to carry on her father’s legacy as a master gilder. Instead, her father h...
An exciting, dual-timeline historical novel about the creation of one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous paintings, Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine, and the woman who fought to save it from Nazi destruction during World War II. Milan, 1492: ...
From the acclaimed author of The Night Portrait comes a stunning historical novel about two women, separated by five hundred years, who each hide Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa -- with unintended consequences. France, 1939 At the dawn of World...
In a race across Nazi-occupied Italy, two women -- a German photographer and an American stenographer -- hunt for priceless masterpieces looted from the Florentine art collections.In the summer of 1943, Eva Brunner is taking photographs of Nazi-loote...
During World War II, a girl makes an unbreakable connection with a boy sheltering in her family’s Tuscan villa, where the treasures of the Uffizi Galleries are hidden. A moving coming-of-age story about the power of art in wartime, based on true ev...