The Red Lily Crown

Name: The Red Lily Crown
Brand: Berkley
SKU: 9780451418876-PRUSDTR-US
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A Novel of Medici Florence

Elizabeth Loupas (Author) ... more

Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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English • Age Adult - Adult

448 pages • 5.5 x 8.2 x 0.94 in

Approx. weight: 0.77 lb

Publication date: 01 Apr,2014

Barcode: 9780451418876 • Berkley

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Fiction: Historical fiction

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By: Elizabeth Loupas

Elizabeth Loupas returns with her most ambitious historical novel yet, a story of intrigue, passion, and murder in the Medici Court...

April, 1574, Florence, Italy. Grand Duke Cosimo de’ Medici lies dying. 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.

Chiara 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. Instead she is trapped in his household—imprisoned and forcibly initiated as a virgin acolyte in Francesco’s quest for power and immortality. Undaunted, she seizes her chance to pursue undreamed-of power of her own.

Witness to sensuous intrigues and brutal murder plots, Chiara seeks a safe path through the labyrinth of Medici tyranny and deception. Beside her walks the prince’s mysterious English alchemist Ruanno, her friend and teacher, driven by his own dark goals. Can Chiara trust him to keep her secrets…even to love her…or will he prove to be her most treacherous enemy of all?