num_pages: 304
description: A novel set in 18th-century Venice at a prestigious music school about two girls drawn together by a dangerous wagerVenice 1717. Fifteen-year-old Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at violin. As a student at the Ospedale della Piet she hopes to join the highest ranks of its illustrious girls orchestra and become a protg of the great Antonio Vivaldi. Luisa is good at violin but she is not the best. She has peers but she does not have friends. Until Maddalena.After a scandal threatens her noble familys reputation Maddalena is sent to the Piet to preserve her marriage prospects. When she meets Luisa Maddalena feels the stirrings of a friendship unlike anything she has known. But Maddalena has a secret: she has hatched a dangerous plot to rescue her future her own way. When she invites Luisa into her plans promising to make her dreams come true Luisa doesnt hesitate. But every wager has its price and as the girls are drawn into the decadent world outside the Piets walls they must decide what it is they truly wantand what they will do to pay for it.Lush and heady swirling with music and magic Maddalena and the Dark is a Venetian fairytale about the friendship between two girls and the boundless desire that will set them free if it doesnt consume them first.
language: English
title: Maddalena and the Dark
publisher: Flatiron Books