A Novel A Spanish conspiracy... A Venetian courtesan... A letter that could change the course of history.
A captivating debut novel weaving together the stories of two dynamic women: a highly-educated seventeenth century Venetian courtesan embroiled in a dangerous political intrigue and the contemporary historian researching her fate.
The Rossetti Letter transports readers to seventeenth-century Venice, an especially exciting time in Venetian history that was full of intrigue, espionage, murder and secret agendas.
It was also a time when social and economic conditions forced one out of five of its female citizens to assume the role of courtesan.