Glass Painter Antonia Bender is a woman readers won't easily forget: She courageously mediates between two antagonistic half-brothers, fights for a seemingly impossible love and energetically pursues the bishop's atrocious murderer…    In the midst of all the hustle and bustle of the Council of Trento in October 1551, glass painter Antonia Bender falls in love – with the young Jesuit Sandro of all people. It is a totally unsuitable match and an impossible love, for Sandro is not only the half-brother of Antonia's long-standing admirer Matthew, the powerful envoy of a powerful duke; he has also been commissioned to find the bishop's murderer. So Antonia is only too glad to find a friend in the strange city, in the form of Carlotta, a courtesan. There is, however, something Antonia does not know: Carlotta has come to Trento for one reason and one reason only: to kill the Pope's son …    Press   Press comments on ""The Mistress of the Popes""  ""A book with bestseller qualities."" BZ  ""If you liked 'Pope Joan' by Donna Cross, you'll devour 'The Mistress of the Popes'."" Hamburger Abendblatt  ""A wonderful historical debut!"" Frau mit Herz  ""Excitingly and vividly written!"" Bild der Frau    Author   Eric Walz, born in 1966, started writing short stories after taking a business training, but his passion has always been for historical subjects. Eric Walz lives in Berlin, working as a freelance personal trainer and author. At present he is writing his next historical novel.

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