Author(s): Victoria Strauss
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 368
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Language: English
Date Published: 2014-08-26
Dimensions: 139.7 x 205.74 x 25.4mm
Publication City/Country: Seattle, United States
Edition: Reprint
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Passion Blue is a Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Books of 2012

When seventeen-year-old Giulia, the orphaned, illegitimate daughter of a Milanese nobleman, learns she's to be packed off to a life behind convent walls, she begs an astrologer-sorcerer for a talisman that will secure what she's certain is her heart's desire: true love and a place where she belongs. But does she really know the compass of her heart? The convent of Santa Marta is full of surprises, including a workshop of nuns who are creating paintings of astonishing beauty using a luminous blue mixed from a secret formula: Passion Blue. As Giulia's own artistic self is awakened she's torn: should she follow the young man who promises to help her escape? Or stay and satisfy her growing desire to paint?

This richly imagined novel of a girl's daring journey towards self-discovery transports readers into the fascinating world of Renaissance Italy where love and faith and art inspire passion--of many different hues.