The Queen's Soprano — Carol Dines

ANGELICA VOGLIA HAS THE VOICE OF AN ANGEL....

But in seventeenth-century Rome, her talent is considered downright sinful. The pope has forbidden women to sing in public, so the gifted seventeen-year-old is forced to hide behind her shuttered window while admirers gather outside to hear her beautiful voice. One of them is Theodon, the French artist she loves. But just as the pope's soldiers police her singing, Angelica's mother attempts to control her daughter's heart -- and is determined to marry her off to a wealthy nobleman.

Angelica's only hope of gaining the freedom to sing -- and to love whom she wishes -- is to flee her humble home and join the court of the libertine Queen Christina. But even after achieving her dream of singing in the grand palace and rising to the exalted position of the queen's soprano, Angelica still feels her life is not her own. Will she risk everything to make her voice heard?