A woman’s secret. A deadly plague. Unleash the hidden magic.
It’s 1348. As the Black Plague ravages Italy, Ginevra di Gasparo is summoned to Florence after nearly a decade of lonely exile. Ginevra has a gift - harnessing the hidden powers of gemstones, she can heal the sick. But when word spread of her unusual abilities, she was condemned as a witch and banished. Now, amid the pandemic, the same men who expelled Ginevra are begging her to return.
Ginevra obliges, assuming that the city’s leaders are finally ready to accept her unorthodox cures. But upon arrival, she is assigned a very different task: She must use her collection of jewels to track down a ruthless thief who is ransacking Florence’s churches for priceless relics, the city’s only hope for protection. If she succeeds, she’ll become a recognized physician and will never be accused of witchcraft again.
But as her investigation progresses, Ginevra discovers she is merely a pawn in a much larger scheme than the one she has been hired to solve. And the dangerous men behind this conspiracy won’t think twice about killing a witch to get what they want.
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