La Serenissima - a beautiful but deadly city where corrupt aristocrats rule and everything, including love, has a price. Tallow is anything but a simple candlemaker and when she has everything taken away from her - friends, family, hope - all she can do to survive is rely on the Maleovellis. Casting aside the safety of her disguise, she becomes cold-hearted Tarlo, female courtesan and the toast of those who, if they knew her secret, would destroy her. But the intrigues of the Serenissian nobility are nothing against the larger forces moving within the world. And Tallow's enemies have a hidden asset: the one thing they know she cannot possibly resist.

 

This book is part of a book series called The Curse Of the Bond Riders .

There are 792 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by ReadHowYouWant. com Ltd .

Karen Stormer Brooks has illustrated several children's books, including "I Bought a Baby Chicken "by Kelly Milner Halls and published by Boyds Mills Press. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. "