Gabrielle Kimm
Gabrielle Kimm is the author of His Last Duchess and The Courtesan’s Lover, also published by Sphere. She lives in rural West Sussex, and teaches English part-time at a small performing arts school.
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The Girl with the Painted Face
Modena, Italy, 1582. Seventeen-year-old seamstress Sofia Genotti is on the run, falsely accused of theft. Penniless and desperate to avoid the perils of whoredom, she…
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Playing a Dangerous Game
Italy, 1582. When young seamstress Sofia Genotti delivers a mended dress to a beautiful widow in Modena, she has no idea she's about to become…
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The Courtesan’s Lover
Francesca Felizzi, former mistress of the Duke of Ferrara, is now an aspiring courtesan. Astonishingly beautiful and ambitious, she revels in the power she wields…
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His Last Duchess
When sixteen-year-old Lucrezia de' Medici marries the fifth Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso d'Este, she imagines life with her handsome husband will be idyllic. But little…