[Lucifer Jones 03] • Lady With an Alien

• Sci-fi author Mike Resnick has won more awards than Ray Bradbury or Isaac Asimov

• Leonardo da Vinci, star of the best-selling The Da Vinci Code, is hot

• Time travel, adventure, humor—**Lady with an Alien** is an Art Encounters tour de force!

*Lady with an Ermine*, Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait of a patron’s mistress holding the symbol of her lover’s family, is perhaps his most beautiful painting. But…is that what ermines really look like? Mike Resnick, the author of Hugo Award winners *Kirinyaga* and *Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge*, presents an exciting reimagining of this great painting in his first-ever book for young adults. The time-traveling hero, Mario Ravelli, develops a unique friendship with Leonardo da Vinci during a vacation from 2523 A.D. The story of how Mario’s pet becomes the lady’s ermine makes for an intriguing, entertaining journey to Renaissance Italy, and gives a unique look at the work and the creative process of a great master.