The Florentine — Sandra Shulman

HER VEIL OF INNOCENCE WAS RIPPED AWAY

Beautiful Francesca de Narni grew up in a circle of the sheerest enchantment. Her incredible loveliness and grace were protected by the aristocratic name she bore and the fortune and power of her family.

But suddenly all was changed. A tidal wave of violence destroyed all the Narni clan -- all except Francesca, who was cast adrift in a torrent of treachery and lust in the greatest, most abandoned city of an age of splendor and savagery…