num_pages: 388
description: Aurelia Rubbini, the only child of a rich merchant in 14th Century Italy, is a dutiful daughter, wife and mother, but she longs for something more than the restricted life intended for her. Then one day, her father returns home with an Asian slave boy, Batu, and Aurelia’s destiny is changed forever.Aurelia and Batu are inexorably drawn to each other, but their forbidden relationship is doomed. Aurelia is forced to marry Lorenzo de Graziano, a nobleman with a dangerous reputation, but Batu’s presence arouses violent passions that Aurelia, in her innocence, can never understand.Exclusively available from Lulu.com
language: English
title: The Slave
publisher: Pauline Montagna