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A dazzling tale of love, sumptuous splendour and conspiracy in the Italian Renaissance court of Ferrara, from the brilliant author of The Flower Reader. Barbara of Austria is plain, quick-witted and sensible. She also desperately needs a husband, for unmarried at twenty-six, she is about to be packed off to a convent, like her sisters before her. So it is that she seizes what seems to be her last chance - a proposal of marriage from Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Lucrezia Borgia's grandson, clever, handsome, powerful - and widely believed to have murdered his first wife, Lucrezia de Medici. Barbara goes into her marriage clear-eyed, fascinated by her dangerous, enigmatic new husband - and increasingly - recklessly - driven to discover the truth about the death of his first duchess.
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Elizabeth Loupas lives near the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. She hates housework, cold weather and wearing shoes. She loves gardening, animals and popcorn. Not surprisingly she lives in a state of happy, barefoot chaos with her delightful and slightly bemused husband.
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Love, sumptuous splendour, conspiracy - and perhaps murder... The Second Duchess is a dazzling novel set in Renaissance Italy.
Barbara of Austria is plain, quick-witted and sensible. She also desperately needs a husband, for, unmarried at twenty-six, she is about to be packed off to a convent, like her sisters before her.
So it is that she seizes what seems to be her last chance - a proposal of marriage from Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Lucrezia Borgia's grandson, clever, handsome, powerful - and widely believed to have murdered his first wife, Lucrezia de' Medici.
Barbara goes into her marriage clear-eyed, fascinated by her dangerous, enigmatic new husband and increasingly - recklessly - driven to discover the truth about the death of his first duchess.
Elizabeth Loupas is the brilliant author of The Flower Reader, set in the time of Mary, Queen of Scots:
'This is a "must read"... A real bodice-ripping yarn with generous doses of love, honour, betrayal and tragedy, with Scotland's shimmering light as its backdrop' No.1 Magazine
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