Florence looks like a jewel and smells of sulfur... The beautiful Luciana Vetra is a well-known figure in the colorful underworld of fifteenth-century Florence. She works as a prostitute and occasionally earns extra money as a model for painters. When she is to pose for Botticelli for the painting La Primavera, she feels flattered and excited. But only until the painter's behavior suddenly changes, and Sandro sends her home without payment. In her anger, Luciana takes a miniature of the unfinished painting... and soon discovers that someone is willing to kill just to get the sketch back. When her closest friends start dying around her, she turns to the only man who remains unaffected by her charms: the novice Guido della Torre from the Santa Croce monastery. Guido and Luciana flee Florence and travel through nine cities of Renaissance Italy in a desperate effort to decipher the 'cipher of Master Botticelli' before an unrelenting assassin in leper's clothing ends their lives. The Secret of Master Botticelli, with its irresistibly bold narrator and protagonist in one, is a gripping tale of deadly conspiracies, ancient secrets, and indestructible love.
