The Botticelli Secret
by Marina Fiorato | 
The Rossetti Letter
by Christi Phillips | 
The Floating Book
by Michelle Lovric | 
The World Before Her
by Deborah Weisgall | 
The Shoemaker's Wife
by Adriana Trigiani | 
In the Company of the Courtesan
by Sarah Dunant |
Prince of Foxes
by Samuel Shellabarger | 
The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi
by Jacqueline Park | 
Daughter of Venice
by Donna Jo Napoli | 
Royal Escape
by Georgette Heyer | 
The Seekers
by John Jakes | 
People of the Earth
by W. Michael Gear | 
The Titans
by John Jakes | 
The Lawless
by John Jakes | 
The Hearth and Eagle
by Anya Seton | 
The Rebels
by John Jakes | 
I, Mona Lisa
by Jeanne Kalogridis | 
The Virgin Blue
by Tracy Chevalier | 
The Madonna of the Almonds
by Marina Fiorato | 
Beatrice and Benedick
by Marina Fiorato |
Venice, 1681. Glassblowing is the lifeblood of the Republic, and Venetian mirrors are more precious than gold. Jealously guarded by the murderous Council of Ten, the glassblowers of Murano are virtually imprisoned on their island in the lagoon. But the greatest of the artists, Corradino Manin, sells his methods and his soul to the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, to protect his secret daughter. In the present day his descendant, Leonora Manin, leaves an unhappy life in London to begin a new one as a glassblower in Venice. As she finds new life and love in her adoptive city, her fate becomes inextricably linked with that of her ancestor and the treacherous secrets of his life begin to come to light.