{"title":"Alyssa Palombo","description":"ALYSSA PALOMBO is the author of The Violinist of Venice and The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence. She is a recent graduate of Canisius College with degrees in English and creative writing, respectively. A passionate music lover, she is a classically trained musician as well as a big fan of heavy metal. When not writing, she can be found reading, hanging out with her friends, traveling, or planning for next Halloween. She lives in Buffalo, New York, where she is always at work on a new novel.","products":[{"product_id":"the-spellbook-of-katrina-van-tassel-a-story-of-sleepy-hollow-paperback","title":"The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel: A Story of Sleepy Hollow - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Marrying forbidden love, devoted friendship, and the supernatural with Palombo's signature passion for music, storytelling, and heartbreaking choices, \u003ci\u003eThe Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel\u003c\/i\u003e enchants with a concoction of love, longing, and loss plucked from the bones of one of our most enduring and haunting legends.\" - Erin Lindsay McCabe, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eI Shall Be Near to You\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Ichabod Crane arrives in the spooky little village of Sleepy Hollow as the new schoolmaster, Katrina Van Tassel is instantly drawn to him. Through their shared love of books and music, they form a friendship that quickly develops into romance. Ichabod knows that as an itinerant schoolteacher of little social standing, he has nothing to offer the wealthy Katrina - unlike her childhood friend-turned-enemy, Brom Van Brunt, who is the suitor Katrina's father favors. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut when romance gives way to passion, Ichabod and Katrina embark on a secret love affair, sneaking away into the woods after dark to be together - all while praying they do not catch sight of Sleepy Hollow's legendary Headless Horseman. That is, until All Hallows's Eve, when Ichabod suddenly disappears, leaving Katrina alone and in a perilous position. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnlisting the help of her friend - and rumored witch - Charlotte Jansen, Katrina seeks the truth of Ichabod Crane's disappearance, investigating the forest around Sleepy Hollow using unconventional - often magical - means. What they find forces Katrina to question everything she once knew, and to wonder if the Headless Horseman is perhaps more than just a story after all. In Alyssa Palombo's \u003ci\u003eThe Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel \u003c\/i\u003enothing is as it seems, and love is a thing even death won't erase.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103958995167,"sku":"9781250127617","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/e0yYck47_I9781250127617.webp?v=1781099825"},{"product_id":"the-most-beautiful-woman-in-florence-a-story-of-botticelli-paperback","title":"The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence: A Story of Botticelli - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In the tradition of Tracy Chevalier's \u003ci\u003eGirl with a Pearl Earring\u003c\/i\u003e, Palombo has married fine art with romantic historical fiction in this lush and sensual interpretation of Medici Florence, artist Sandro Botticelli, and the muse that inspired them all.\" - \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici family's favored circle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici's glittering circle of politicians, poets, artists, and philosophers. The men of Florence--most notably the rakish Giuliano de' Medici--become enthralled with her beauty. That she is educated and an ardent reader of poetry makes her more desirable and fashionable still. But it is her acquaintance with a young painter, Sandro Botticelli, which strikes her heart most. Botticelli immediately invites Simonetta, newly proclaimed the most beautiful woman in Florence, to pose for him. 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