Stone Virgin
by By Unsworth, Barry
Category: Fiction , Romance , Historical , General

A mysterious sculpture of a beautiful and erotic  Madonna holds the key to the Fornarini family's secrets. When Raikes, a conservation expert,  tries to restore her, he is swept under the  statue's spell and swept under the spell of the seductive Chiara Litsov, a member of the  Fornarini family now married to a famous  sculptor. Raikes finds himself losing all moral  grounding as his love for statue and woman  intertwine in lust and murder.