A Bed of Earth
A Bed of Earth (Secret Books of Venus, Book 3) Tanith Lee,
Publisher: Overlook Press
ISBN: 1585672610
Edition: Hardcover; 2002-08-01
Summary:
The third book in Tanith Lee's compelling series based on alchemy and
the elements focuses on the element of earth. It is a haunting
journey to a parallel version of sixteenth-century Venice, where a
fierce territorial rivalry between two noble families-the della
Scorpias and the Barbarons-unearths a supernatural force from beneath
the placid surface of the canals and rotting understructure of the
city. The struggle between the two families for space on the Isle of
the Dead, the overcrowded burial ground for generations of Venetian
nobility, becomes more and more heated, and fourteen-year-old Meralda
della Scorpia is forced to pay the ultimate price. But as the years
pass on, parties complicit in her disappearance-from both
houses-begin to suffer the consequences in a series of shocking
deaths that could emanate from none other than a supernatural foe. As
these bizarre events throw the city into a panic, a humble apprentice
gravedigger is left to sort out the mysteries-an effort that will
enable him to unearth the secrets of his own shadowy past.
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