Tuscan Rose
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On Sale:
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13/04/2010
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Formats:
Trade paperback
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The internationally bestselling author of WHITE GARDENIA returns with her greatest heroine yet.
A mysterious stranger known as ′The Wolf′ leaves an infant with the sisters of Santo Spirito. A tiny silver key hidden in her wrappings is the one clue to the child′s identity ...
Rosa′s only family is the nuns who have raised her. When she turns fifteen, she must leave them and become governess to the daughter of an aristocrat and his strange, frightening wife. Their house is elegant but cursed, and Rosa - blessed with gifts beyond her considerable musical talents - is torn between her desire to know the truth and her fear of its repercussions.
And all the while, the hand of Fascism curls around beautiful Italy, and none of her citizens is safe. Rosa faces unimaginable hardship: her only weapons her intelligence, intuition and determination ...and her extraordinary capacity for love.
A tale of sacrifice and reward, of beauty and horror, and of redemption as only Belinda Alexandra can deliver.
′a wonderful saga. Belinda Alexandra has successfully created an elaborate world ... which readers can get lost in′ GOOD READING on WILD LAVENDER
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