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Versailles, 1670. Carlo Demirco is a master of the fashionable new art of creating flavoured ices, his techniques – stolen from the court of the Medici in Florence where he was raised – a closely-guarded secret that have brought him wealth, a position at the court of Louis XIV, and the admiration of women. Almost the only woman impervious to his charms, in fact, seems to be twenty-year-old Louise de Keroualle, an impoverished but proud lady-in-waiting to Henrietta d’Orleans, sister of the English king. When Henrietta dies suddenly, Louise and Carlo are sent to London, their services intended as a gift to the grieving king. One of those…