The Venetian Envoy
A lush, melancholic novel of Renaissance intrigue about a wartime promise, a hidden resistance, court conspiracy, grief and fatherhood, and a secret buried by timeBy Dorothea O. Coleridge
Length7h 37m
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He carried his wife home dead in his arms, and made a promise over her body he didn't know how to keep.
Niccolo Gradenigo sailed to Constantinople a husband and returned a widower.
The fever took Caterina at sea, three days out of Modon.
It left him with a five-year-old daughter, Bianca, and her wide grey eyes asking when her mother will wake.
"Watch her for me," Caterina begged before the end. "If I come back different, watch her for me."
He promised. He always promises.
But Venice does not let a grieving man rest.
The Signoria needs an envoy at the Ottoman court, a man who knows the city of domes and whispers.
A man who can be sent into the heart of the Divan and not be missed if he never comes back.
So Niccolo goes.
Into a court where bitter coffee is poured with poison, where a janissary's silver whistle is a sentence of death, and where the Valide Sultan's smile hides a blade.
There he finds a cipher that should not exist.
A conspiracy threaded through three kingdoms and a banker's shadowed ledgers.
And a hidden resistance asking him to gamble everything Venice has trusted him to protect.
Every secret he uncovers carries a price.
Every alliance could be the lie that gets him killed.
And the treaty he was sent to sign may cost him the one promise that still matters.
A widow's gambit. A trap baited with gold. A cistern of last words beneath the city.
To keep faith with a dead woman and the daughter waiting at home, Niccolo must decide how much of his soul a single vow is worth.
He must choose between the republic that owns him and the child who needs him.
Because some debts are paid in gold.
And some are paid in salt and blood.
The Venetian Envoy is a lush, melancholic novel of Renaissance intrigue about a wartime promise, a hidden resistance, court conspiracy, grief and fatherhood, and a secret buried by time.
Perfect for readers who love sweeping historical fiction, Venetian and Ottoman intrigue, morally tangled spies, atmospheric period detail, and books like The Lost Apothecary and The Pillars of the Earth. A standalone historical novel with a hard-won, haunting close.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Action and Adventure, Romance
Length7 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
13Chapter 11 - The Valide’s Knife
2Prologue
14Chapter 12 - The Treason of the Empty Cipher
3Chapter 1 - The Pier Where We Buried Her Heart
15Chapter 13 - The Fish Pool’s Bite
4Chapter 2 - The Whisper of the Divan
16Chapter 14 - The Cistern of Last Words
5Chapter 3 - The Ink-Stained Mercy of Zaccaria del Sarto
17Chapter 15 - The All-Is-Lost Hour of the Spice Merchant
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6Chapter 4 - The Banker’s Shade
18Chapter 16 - The Lion of the Golden Horn
7Chapter 5 - The Widow’s Gambit
19Chapter 17 - The Divan Where Truth Has No Shadow
8Chapter 6 - The Trap Baited with Gold
20Chapter 18 - The Fall That Opened the Way
9Chapter 7 - The Janissary’s Silver Whistle
21Chapter 19 - The Treaty We Signed with Salt
10Chapter 8 - The Cup of Bitter Coffee
22Chapter 20 - The Sail We Set for Home
11Chapter 9 - The Conspiracy of the Third Key
23Epilogue
12Chapter 10 - The Midpoint We Cast into the Golden Horn
24About the Author
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