The stone witch of florence - anna rasche

A feast of a novel, The Stone Witch of Florence is erudite, transportive, and addicting.

Magical in every sense of the word.

--Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters Ancient sorcery.

Magic gemstones.

Only one woman can save a city in ruins.

As the Black Plague ravages Italy, Ginevra di Gasparo is summoned to Florence after nearly a decade of lonely exile.

Ginevra has a gift--harnessing the hidden powers of gemstones, she can heal the sick.

But when word spread of her unusual abilities, she was condemned as a witch and banished.

Now the same men who expelled Ginevra are begging for her return.

Ginevra obliges, assuming the citys leaders are finally ready to accept her unorthodox cures amid a pandemic.

But upon arrival, she is tasked with a much different mission: she must use her collection of jewels to track down a ruthless thief who is ransacking Florences churches for priceless relics--the citys only hope for protection.

If she succeeds, shell be a recognized physician and never accused of witchcraft again.

But as her investigation progresses, Ginevra discovers shes merely a pawn in a much larger scheme than the one shes been hired to solve.

And the dangerous men behind this conspiracy wont think twice about killing a stone witch to get what they want.