Gabrielle Kimm is the author of His Last Duchess and The Courtesan’s Lover, also published by Sphere. She lives in rural West Sussex, and teaches English part-time at a small performing arts school.
Modena, Italy, 1582. Seventeen-year-old seamstress Sofia Genotti is on the run, falsely accused of theft. Penniless and desperate to avoid the perils of whoredom, she…