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Today's Featured Title and Contest |
February 10, 2016 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that releases this winter. Read more about it, and enter our Winter Reading Contest by Thursday, February 11th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE VATICAN PRINCESS: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia by C. W. Gortner, which is now in stores. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: THE VATICAN PRINCESS: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia, by C. W. Gortner
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Glamorous and predatory, the Borgias fascinated and terrorized 15th-century Renaissance Italy. Lucrezia Borgia, beloved daughter of the pope, was at the center of the dynasty’s ambitions. Slandered as a heartless seductress who lured men to their doom, was she in fact the villainess of legend, or was she trapped in a familial web, forced to choose between loyalty and survival?
With the ascension of the Spaniard Rodrigo Borgia as Pope Alexander VI, the new pope’s illegitimate children --- his rival sons, Cesare and Juan, and beautiful young daughter Lucrezia --- assume an exalted position in the papal court. Privileged and adored, Lucrezia yearns to escape her childhood and play a part in her family’s fortunes. But Rome is seductive and dangerous: Alliances shift at a moment’s notice as Italy’s ruling dynasties strive to keep rivals at bay. As Lucrezia’s father faces challenges from all sides, he’s obliged to marry her off to a powerful adversary. But when she discovers the brutal truth behind her alliance, Lucrezia is plunged into a perilous gambit that will require all her wits and cunning. Escaping her marriage offers the chance of happiness with a passionate prince of Naples, yet as scandalous accusations of murder and incest build against her, menacing those she loves, Lucrezia must risk everything to overcome the lethal fate imposed by her Borgia blood.
Beautifully wrought, rich with fascinating historical detail, THE VATICAN PRINCESS is the first novel to describe Lucrezia’s coming-of-age in her own voice --- a dramatic, vivid tale set in an era of savagery and unparalleled splendor, where enemies and allies can be one and the same, and where loyalty to family can ultimately be a curse.
-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to visit C. W Gortner's official website.
-Connect with C. W. Gortner on Facebook and Twitter.
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Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET on Thursday, February 11th. |
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