num_pages: 504
description: Francesca Felizzi former mistress of the Duke of Ferrara is now an aspiring courtesan. Astonishingly beautiful and ambitious she revels in the power she wields over men. But when she is visited by an inexperienced young man it becomes horribly clear to Francesca that despite her many admiring patrons she has never truly been loved. Suddenly her glittering and sumptuous life becomes a gaudy faade. And then another unexpected encounter brings with it devastating implications that plunge Francesca and her two young daughters into the sort of danger she has dreaded ever since she began to work the streets all those years ago.
language: English
title: The Courtesan's Lover
publisher: Little Brown & Company