Title : The Lionesses of Venice, volume 1 - Mireille Calmel - Book

Summary :

When desire and power rub shoulders with the most intriguing of mysteries.

Venice, Campo Santa Fosca, October 1627. Lucia, a young and mischievous Venetian, finds herself in the midst of the flames devastating the modest family printing shop. Before her eyes, her father is kidnapped by three armed men. Who is behind this crime? The day before, the magnificent Isabella Rosselli, the most cunning spy in the city of the Doges, came to have a strange engraving reproduced.

Lucia is determined to unravel this enigma and save her father. In a frantic quest, she infiltrates the powerful, mingles with the carnival's pretenses, and delves into the courtyards of palaces. A fascinating, oppressive Venice, where power merges with love, where embraces follow duels and kisses follow plots.

In these depths of the lakeside city, friends and enemies advance masked. Lucia plays with her charms, her sword, and even her dagger, which she wears on her calf. She uses cunning, crossing swords with Giorgio Cornaro, the son of the Doge, a corrupt and dangerous man, ready to do anything to discover the truth about this engraving, which everyone in Venice is convinced holds the secret to absolute power.

Following the success of her series on Eleanor of Aquitaine, Mireille Calmel masterfully immerses us in the troubled Venice of the 17th century. A formidable swashbuckling novel that will take the reader from the city of masks to the land of the musketeers.

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