<p>Violante isn't supposed to be here, in one of the grandest courts of Renaissance Italy. She isn't supposed to be a lady-in-waiting to the beautiful Lucrezia Borgia. But the same secretive politics that pushed Lucrezia's father to the Vatican have landed Violante deep in a lavish landscape of passion and ambition.</p> <p>Violante discovers a Lucrezia unknown to those who see only a scheming harlot, and all the whispers about her brother, Cesare Borgia, never revealed the soul of the man who dances close with Violante.</p> <p>But those who enter the House of Borgia are never quite the same when they leave-if they leave at all. Violante's place in history will test her heart and leave her the guardian of dangerous secrets she must carry to the grave.</p> <p>What Readers are Saying:</p> <p>"Reading this book is like looking at every painting of Renaissance Italy you have ever seen. Full of dazzling colour, warmth, and vitality...Sarah Bower has done it again."</p> <p>"A richly satisfying historical novel."</p> <p>"Bower re-creates the world of the early sixteenth century unfailingly; the historical details of this novel are exquisite."</p>