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Bianca : the silk merchant's daughters / Bertrice Small.
Florentine society will never approve of the new man Bianca's chosen: Prince Amir, grandson of Mehmet the Conqueror. How can two lovers from two cultures find happiness in a world determined to tear them apart?
Florentine silk merchant Giovanni Pietro d’Angelo and his wife want nothing more than to marry their daughters to wealthy men of distinction. But when their son is implicated in a tragic accident, it is their eldest daughter, Bianca, who must pay the price—by marrying the powerful and debauched Sebastiano Rovere in exchange for his silence. Bianca flees the cruel union and seeks shelter in a seaside villa where she discovers the possibility of love at last. But Florentine society will never approve of the man she’s chosen: Prince Amir, grandson of Mehmet the Conqueror. Two passionate lovers. Two different worlds determined to keep them apart.
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- ISBN: 9780451237958 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 0451237951 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780451414779 (pbk.) :
- Physical Description: 419 p.; 23 cm.
- Publisher: New York : New American Library, c2012.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Elkford Public Library | FC SMA (Text) | 35170000352013 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Bianca flees her arranged marriage to Sebastiano Rovere, who blackmails her into marrying him to keep her brother's indiscretion a secret, and escapes to a seaside villa where she falls in love with the grandson of Mehmet the Conqueror. - Baker & Taylor
Bianca flees her arranged marriage and into the arms of Prince Amir, grandson of Mehmet the Conqueror in the first entry in a new series by theNew York Times best-selling author of The Border Chronicles novels. Original. 75,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
"Florentine silk merchant Giovanni Pietro d'Angelo and his wife want nothing more than to marry their daughters to wealthy men of distinction. But when their son's dangerous indiscretion implicates him in a tragic accident, it is their eldest daughter who must pay the price. Blackmailed by the powerful and debauched Sebastiano Rovere, the Pietro d'Angelos must give beautiful Bianca in marriage to Rovere to buy his silence. With the aid of her mother, Bianca flees her dark, cruel union, seeking shelter ina seaside villa. It is the shocking murder of her husband that allows her to find the possibility of love at last. But Florentine society would never approve of the man she's chosen: Prince Amir, grandson of Memhet the Conqueror. Two passionate lovers ... two different cultures ... two worlds determined to keep them apart" -- Cover verso. - Penguin Putnam
New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small begins a captivating quartet of novels in this âRenaissance romance fraught with conflicting family dynamics and ruthless dangers!...The plotting is spellbindingâ(Fresh Fiction).
Florentine silk merchant Giovanni Pietro dâAngelo and his wife want nothing more than to marry their daughters to wealthy men of distinction. But when their son is implicated in a tragic accident, it is their eldest daughter, Bianca, who must pay the priceâby marrying the powerful and debauched Sebastiano Rovere in exchange for his silence.
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Bianca flees the cruel union and seeks shelter in a seaside villa where she discovers the possibility of love at last. But Florentine society will never approve of the man sheâs chosen: Prince Amir, grandson of Mehmet the Conqueror.
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Two passionate lovers. Two different worlds determined to keep them apart. - Random House, Inc.
New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small begins a captivating quartet of novels in this “Renaissance romance fraught with conflicting family dynamics and ruthless dangers!...The plotting is spellbinding”(Fresh Fiction).
Florentine silk merchant Giovanni Pietro d’Angelo and his wife want nothing more than to marry their daughters to wealthy men of distinction. But when their son is implicated in a tragic accident, it is their eldest daughter, Bianca, who must pay the price—by marrying the powerful and debauched Sebastiano Rovere in exchange for his silence.
Bianca flees the cruel union and seeks shelter in a seaside villa where she discovers the possibility of love at last. But Florentine society will never approve of the man she’s chosen: Prince Amir, grandson of Mehmet the Conqueror.
Two passionate lovers. Two different worlds determined to keep them apart.
