title: Royal Captive
author: Phillips, Patricia
description: A SEETHING, TEMPESTUOUS SAGA OF DARK POWERS AND BLAZING PASSIONS
  
  Her name was Rosanna - daughter of a witch, poverty-stricken, but possessed of a fiery spirit and an unquenchable thirst for all life could offer.  Young, innocent, with the guilelessness of a girl and the body of a woman, Rosanna was destined to climb to the dizzying heights of a 15th-century Italian court life.
  
  Royal Captive chronicles her fabulous rise - and the degradations and indignities she would survive...the cruel man who first possessed her body, and the young duke who would finally possess her heart.  The story of Rosanna is a saga of triumph, of revenge, of court intrigues and unbridled lust - and, most of all, the vivid, unforgettable romance of Rosanna and the magnificent Duke Paolo.