This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1958, 1974 by Jean Plaidy

Excerpt from Light on Lucrezia copyright © 1958, 1976 by Jean Plaidy

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Published in the United States by Broadway Paperbacks, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.crownpublishing.com

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Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in Great Britain by Robert Hale Limited, London, in 1958, and in the United States by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, in 1974.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on request.

eISBN: 978-0-307-88753-5

Cover design by Laura Klynstra
Cover photography by Michael Nelson (Lucrezia) and
Simon Watson / Getty Images (Rome)

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