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IRISH MAGIC by MORGAN LLYWELYN
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Summary"Poisoner!" The bellowed accusation strikes into silence
all those in Lucrezia Borgia's audience chamber. Lucrezia has fled Rome to a loveless marriage with Alfonso,
heir to the duke of Ferrara, to escape the rumors that she
is utterly depraved--incestuous, a lecher, a poisoner. To
her delight she is warmly welcomed in Ferrara, by the duke,
by his court, by the people, indeed by everyone except her
husband. And then, after only six weeks of basking in the
warmth of general approval, Alfonso rushes into her
apartment and accuses her of poisoning Bianca Tedaldo, one
of her ladies-in-waiting and his mistress. Immediately, Lucrezia sees the nightmare of her life in
Rome recurring. The whispers behind her back, the signs to
ward off evil, people making out their wills when she
invites them to share a meal. To deny the charge is
useless. Lucrezia knows all too well the futility of
claiming innocence even when the claim is clearly and
plainly true. The only way for her to retrieve her
reputation is to discover who committed the crime and
expose the true murderer.
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