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(3) YA Flora is the least valued child in one of the most powerful families in Renaissance Florence. When her father's scheme to challenge the Medicis goes wrong, Flora's relative invisibility and determination allow her to escape the ensuing bloodbath. Beaufrand's historical romance details, with sometimes surprising vigor, a world shaped by both a taste for gruesome torture and Botticelli's exquisite artwork.

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