Strauss, Victoria

Artistically brilliant, Giulia is blessedor cursedwith a spirit?s gift: she can hear the mysterious singing of the colors as she creates them in the convent workshop of Maestra Humilit?a. It?s here that Giulia, forced into the convent against her will, has found unexpected happiness and rekindled her passion to become a painteran impossible dream for any woman in fifteenth-century Italy.

After being entrusted with the secret recipe for a highly desirable pigment known as Passion blue, Giulia, a young woman training as a painter in a fifteenth century convent in Italy, disguises herself as a boy and travels to Venice to reinvent herself as an artist's apprentice.

In fifteenth century Italy, seventeen year old Giulia, a Count's illegitimate daughter, buys a talisman hoping it will bring her true love to save her from life in a convent, but once there she begins to learn the painter's craft, including how to make the coveted paint, Passion blue, and to question her true heart's desire.

Because of the power she possesses, a young girl is drawn into the struggle to control a living stone, once coveted as the Holy Grail and now the soul of a universe parallel to Earth's.

Geraint is sent from his father's castle to live in a household in which the practices of an ancient heresy have survived into the fifteenth century.

The evil spirit of Stern Dreamer sleeps for centuries until archaeologists uncover his ancient tomb; now only his direct descendant Pamela, who has lived apart from her Native American heritage, can imprison his spirit again.

In fifteenth-century Italy, seventeen-year-old Giulia, a Count's illegitimate daughter, buys a talisman hoping it will bring her true love to save her from life in a convent, but once there she begins to learn the painter's craft, including how to make the coveted paint, Passion blue, and to question her true heart's desire. Includes historical notes and glossary.