Bones You Have Cast Down by Jean Huets
Thanks to Jean Huets of Circling Rivers, I am giving away three signed print copies of Bones You Have Cast Down by Jean Huets.
Description of Bones You Have Cast Down by Jean Huets
Inspired by a true story, The Bones You Have Cast Down will transport you to a medieval village and a lush Renaissance court, to long ago times not unlike our own, when the keepers of faith conspired against the faithful, and the rich and powerful embraced war and corruption even while fostering works of artistic brilliance revered to this day.
In 1447, Taria is swept from a convent orphanage into the glittering retinue of the duchess of Milan. Lowborn in a highborn circle, she has never felt so alone. Then a small, mysterious painting of a female pope carries her back 150 years to the joyous circle of a holy woman, worshipped in her time, mysteriously obscure in Taria’s time.
The duchess believes the journey is only a vision, yet she orders Taria to learn more. Reviving the holy woman’s fame could bring badly needed prestige to the noble family. But Taria conceals a devastating revelation: the saint and her followers are despised by the Inquisition.
As jealousy wrecks her romance and poisons her closest friendship, Taria shuns the present and embraces the holy woman’s circle as the family she has always craved. And the Inquisition closes in.
Praise for Bones You Have Cast Down by Jean Huets
The Bones You Have Cast Down transported me to Italy at the dawn of the Renaissance, and into the heart of a young woman who’s deceptively quiet, extraordinarily spirited. From the hand-painted tarot cards to lavish festivities set amidst the misery of war, from cathedrals to village churches, Jean Huets brings alive this paradoxical time. The Bones You Have Cast Down is enchanting and richly historical, as well as dazzling and dark, heart-wrenching and intoxicating. – Stuart R. Kaplan, author of The Encyclopedia of Tarot
A well written book with an intriguing story and an element of magic. Adults and teens alike will be drawn to this historical novel. – Cary Meltzer Frostick, reviewer for School Library Journal and Youth Services librarian
About Jean Huets
Jean Huets is co-author with Stuart R. Kaplan of The Encyclopedia of Tarot and author of The Cosmic Tarot. As editor at U.S. Games Systems, she oversaw the publication of Brian Williams’ Renaissance Tarot deck and book, Luigi Scapini’s Medieval Tarot, an edition of the Visconti-Sforza Tarocchi, and many other tarot decks and books.
Her interactive book With Walt Whitman: Himself was acclaimed by Whitman scholar Ed Folsom as “a true Whitmanian feast.” Her articles on the U.S. Civil War era have appeared in The New York Times and Civil War Monitor. She is co-founder of Circling Rivers, an independent publisher of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Giveaway of Bones You Have Cast Down by Jean Huets
This giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on December 2, 2016 midnight pacific time. Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.
Thanks to Jessalyn Foggy of St. Martin’s Press, I am giving away one print copy of ‘The Violinist of Venice’: A Story of Vivaldi by Alyssa Palombo.
