Fourteenth century Italy was ruled by the law of the church...a law none dared question. No one but Concordia... Beautiful, daring, rebellious Concordia miraculously escapes from the lifeless prison of a convent and discovers a world of freedom and adventure...a world of lust and desire...a world of heartache and tragedy. Abandoning all she has been taught, she sets out on a life of wild gypsy wanderings with Ugo, the illegitimate son of the man loved by her mother, murdered by her father. In his veins throbs the same hot blood, the same hunger that led to ruin once before. But Concordia is helpless before him as he awakens the passionate woman within. And when this illicit love produces a child she can never call her own, Concordia must fulfill her destiny and live the tragic onsequences of a legendary love.
Frances Fleetwood Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
The Passion And Tragedy Of A Legendary Love Cannot Be Silenced... No one but a daughter can truly know the torment of a mother's unhappy marriage... No one but an innocent child can be so vulnerable to the devastating consequences of an adulterous love. Concordia Malatesta is this daughter, this child. At age fourteen, she is shattered and lost as her world crumbles an dthose she lvoes are forever destroyed. Though condemned to a prison of silence, Concordia must reveal the story that is too painful, the crime that was too desperate to remain a secret.