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From the bestselling author of The Bloodletter’s Daughter comes a historical novel about a defiant seventeenth-century artist who dared to feed her passions and explore the limitless possibilities of art.

Born in the bustling artist quarter of Rome, Artemisia, daughter of renowned painter Orazio Gentileschi, is unavoidably drawn into a profession unheard of for women. With an innate grasp of color, light, and composition, and inspired by the mercurial Caravaggio, the fiery Artemisia embraces her calling with a precocious brilliance. But as a young woman, she also finds herself oppressed by a powerful patriarchy, and she is forced to endure emotional and physical abuse at the hands of men.

Until a shattering act of violence unleashes Artemisia’s righteous fury.

Refusing to be silenced and resolved to best men at their own games, Artemisia does what no woman had dared to do before. She fights back.

A bracing historical novel about a woman boldly at odds with her time, Fierce Dreamer explores the fearless determination that would fuel Artemisia Gentileschi’s most courageous works of art and make her independent voice a vital one for our own time.

The discovery of a lost Caravaggio painting yields centuries of deadly secrets in this pulse-pounding novel of historical intrigue and modern-day suspense…

In seventeenth-century Rome, an arrogant and reckless artist named Caravaggio drinks and brawls his way through his violent, insatiable life, all while painting some of the world’s greatest religious works of art. But it is his bitter feud with Giovanni Roero, a brutal knight in the Maltese Order of St. John, that is his fatal error.

Now, in the village of Monte Piccolo, a priest claims to have discovered a lost painting by the famed artist in the storage room of an orphanage. Retired professor A. R. Richman believes it’s a delusional dream. But Lucia, a visiting art student, convinces him otherwise and recruits her best friend, Moto, to join in the quest. They think The Judas Kiss is worth investigating. But tracing its provenance back four hundred years could prove to be just as treacherous as the master’s final days.

Richman, Lucia, and Moto begin chasing the mystery, uncovering a blood feud hidden for years that has now spilled into the twenty-first century. As they follow where it leads—down a trail of murder, betrayal, and vengeance—they find a secret history that someone will kill to keep buried.

Судьба молодой чешки Маркеты была предопределена с самого ее рождения. Дочь цирюльника, а также владельца бани, она должна была, как и ее мать, стать банщицей – помогать посетителям мыться и позволять им всевозможные вольности. Но однажды ее судьба круто изменилась… В городок, где жила Маркета, привезли на лечение внебрачного сына императора Рудольфа II, дона Юлия, подверженного страшным приступам безумия. Ему требовались лечебные кровопускания, которые и должен был производить местный цирюльник – отец Маркеты. Однако случилось непредсказуемое – сын короля воспылал безумной страстью к хорошенькой простолюдинке. Маркета решила…

Графиня Эржебет Батори, родственница самого Влада Дракулы, получила жуткую известность в веках как одна из самых жестоких убийц и истязательниц. Еще поговаривали, что она обрела секрет вечной молодости, принимая ванны, наполненные кровью девственниц. Ее признали виновной пред Богом и людьми и замуровали в крохотной комнате, где графиня умерла страшной смертью. Но ее колдовство, ее черные чары не исчезли вместе с ее черной душой. Никуда не делись и потомки графини, продолжившие носить титул графов Батори. Живя среди нас, они мечтают о возрождении былой мощи и власти. И прекрасно знают: древние тайны дают обильные всходы, если их сбрызнуть…

Raised by her aunt and uncle amidst the rolling hills of the Tuscan countryside, young orphan Virginia Tacci has always harbored a deep love for horses—though she knows she may never have the chance to ride. As a shepherdess in sixteenth-century Italy, Virginia’s possibilities are doubly limited by her peasant class and her gender. Yet while she tends her flock, Virginia is captivated by the daring equestrian feats of the high-spirited Isabella de’ Medici, who rides with the strength and courage of any man, much to the horror of her brother, the tyrannical Gran Duca Francesco de’ Medici. Inspired, the young shepherdess keeps one dream…

Each morning in the hour before dawn, a silent boat launches on the Bosphorous, moving swiftly into the deepest part of the waters halfway between Europe and Asia, where a man will die... The Drowning Guard is the tale of the Ottoman princess, Esma Sultan - one of the most powerful women in Ottoman history and unlike any other woman in the Islamic world. In a gender reversal of Scheherazade in 1001 Arabian Nights, Esma seduces a different Christian lover each night, only to have him drowned in the morning. The Sultaness's true passion burns only for the Christian-born soldier charged with carrying out the brutal nightly death sentence:…