Deze auteur duikt in de complexiteit van de menselijke psyche en de donkerdere aspecten van verlangen en obsessie. Haar proza staat bekend om zijn intense sfeer en doordringende inzichten in het innerlijke leven van personages. Door meeslepende verhalen verkent ze de gevolgen van de keuzes van personages en hoe deze beslissingen hun lot bepalen. Haar werken resoneren met lezers die op zoek zijn naar een diepgaande en provocerende literaire ervaring.
Judith Rashleigh werkt overdag als assistent in een gerenommeerd Londens veilinghuis en om rond te kunnen komen is ze 's nachts hostess in een chique club in de West End-buurt. Als ze een vervalsing ontdekt, wordt ze bij het veilinghuis ontslagen en vlucht ze met een welwillende en rijke klant van de nachtclub naar de Franse Rivièra. Als ze daar, zich lavend tussen de rich and famous, op de fraudezaak stuit die haar uit Londen heeft doen vluchten, zint ze op zoete wraak...
The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical 'City
of Ladies' where the medieval writer Christine de Pisan left off, continuing a
conversation about gender and greatness that began more than six hundred years
ago.
In 15th century Florence, orphaned Mura learn that hermagical heritage makes her a precious prize in this vividly researched historical drama of love, betrayal, and witchcraft Five-year-old Mura is a strange and bewitching child. Daughter of a Nordic mother and Spanish father, she has been tutored in both Arabic and the ancient mythology of the north. But when her widower father is taken by the Inquisition, Mura is sold to a Genoese slaver. In the port of Savona, Mura's androgynous looks and unusual abilities fetch a high price. She is bought as a house slave for the powerful Medici, arriving in Florence as the city prepares for war against the French. When the family are forced to flee, Mura finds herself gifted to the notorious Lioness of Romagna, Countess Caterina Sforza. Beautiful, ruthless, and intelligent, the Countess is fascinated by Mura's arcane knowledge. As the Lioness educates her further in the arts of alchemy, potions, and poisons, Mura becomes a potent weapon in the Machiavellian intrigues of the Renaissance court."
Everything you thought you knew about Maestra...You don't. Judith Rashleigh returns in the stunning thriller from the author of the worldwide bestseller, Maestra.
In 1682, a young woman in the throes of a passionate affair flees her parents' home in Surrey to seek a new life in London. A scandal in its own right, but this is no ordinary young woman- Lady Henrietta Berkeley is the daughter of one of England's most powerful men, and her lover is her own sister's husband... Inspired by this scandal, Aphra Behn would go on to write Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, arguably the first novel in English literature. An immediate bestseller, it propelled Behn out of poverty and disgrace, yet she remains an enigma, the facts about her life continually disputed. In The Scandal of the Century, Lisa Hilton interweaves the story of these two rebellious and ruthless women. Against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, with its strict traditional conventions of love, duty and identity, she shows just how far these women would go to break free.
