For love or duty?

Valentina Riccardi is many things: beautiful, cultured, deadly. As one of Venice’s famous courtesans, she’s perfectly positioned to seduce powerful men, get them alone, and assassinate them. Who they are doesn’t matter--only that they made an enemy of the Council of Ten, the shadowy power from which Valentina takes her orders without question.

Venice is her home, and after losing everything once before, there is nothing she won’t do to protect her city, for there is nothing she loves more.

Almost nothing.

She vowed to never fall in love again, but Valentina can’t help but give her heart to Bastiano Bragadin, a fellow assassin. But when Bastiano starts asking the wrong questions, Valentina receives a new assignment: kill him.

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“Alyssa Palombo brings the Renaissance to life in this mesmerizing story of a courtesan turned assassin.”—Kate Quinn

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