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In My Hands Today…

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Tuscan Rose – Belinda Alexandra

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A mysterious stranger known as ‘The Wolf’ leaves an infant with the sisters of Santo Spirito. A tiny silver key hidden in her wrappings is the only clue to the child’s identity and so begins a story as intriguing and beautiful as the city of Florence itself.

When Rosa turns fifteen, she must leave the nuns who have raised her to become governess to the daughter of an aristocrat, the Marchese Scarfiotti, and his strange, frightening wife.

Their house is elegant but cursed, and Rosa – blessed with gifts beyond her considerable musical talent – is torn between a desire to discover her past connections to the Scarfiotti family and her fear of their repercussions.

Meanwhile, the hand of Fascism curls around beautiful Italy, threatening her citizens. In the face of a brutal war and the Nazi occupation of her country, will Rosa’s intelligence, intuition and her extraordinary capacity for love be enough to ensure her survival?

In My Hands Today…

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Golden Earrings – Belinda Alexandra

12585568A powerful saga of family, love, honour and betrayal

You who judge me: come! Let me tell you a story …

Paloma Batton is the granddaughter of Spanish refugees who fled Barcelona after the Civil War. A disciplined student with the School of the Paris Opera Ballet, Paloma lets little get in the way of her career until she receives a visit from an otherworldly being who leaves her with a pair of golden earrings.

Sensing that she has been given a quest, Paloma begins exploring her own Spanish heritage and makes the connection between the visitor and ‘la Rusa’, a woman who rose from poverty to become one of the great flamenco dancers of modern times.
La Rusa died while living in Paris in 1952. Her death was ruled a suicide but as Paloma begins to unravel the secrets of the past, she discovers more than one person who had good reason for wanting la Rusa dead, including Paloma’s own grandmother.
GOLDEN EARRINGS is a story that moves between two great cities: Barcelona in the lead up to the Civil War and Paris in the 1970s. It is the story of two women and the extremes to which they are willing to go for love. It is a story of great passions — and great betrayals — where nothing is quite as it seems.