Title: Cross my heart
Description: When Laura della Scala's older sister drowns, Laura leaves the shelter of the convent where she has spent the last six years and enters the upper echelons of sixteenth-century Venetian society, while she searches for the truth about what happened to her sister.

When Laura's sister drowns, Laura leaves the shelter of the convent where she has spent the last six years and enters the upper echelons of sixteenth-century Venetian society as she searches for the truth about her sister. The plot contains violence.
Subjects: Death, Love, Teenage girls, Arranged marriage, Secret societies, Fiction, Sex role, Sisters, Mystery and detective stories, History, Daughters, Juvenile fiction, Nuns
Places: Venice (Italy), Italy
Time periods: 16th century