Steven Hobbs

The Lanese Print Steven Hobbs

November 1661 - Venice's trade is faltering, but not Ignazio Lanese's consuming lust for power. Simonetta, his abused and embittered wife, holds a fearful secret, the Lanese Print. Her knowledge is her strength. Her knowledge is her weapon. Her knowledge wounds him bitterly; Ignazio means to tear her down. In a desperate flight from Venice across 17th century Europe Simonetta's insight threatens to destroy her, as her husband's cruel ambition consumes all in its wake. As love, vengeance, mistrust and loyalty tragically collide, will the print prove her saviour or her undoing? And as Ignazio's lethal grip tightens, can it ever prove mightier than the sword? Stretched out across Europe's tarnished Golden Age, The Lanese Print is a murderous tale of retribution and faith, cruelty and compassion. "As beguiling as the country in which it is set..." - Book Viral