In a finely wrought story for lovers of medieval and renaissance mysteries everywhere‚ Guid’Antonio follows a spellbinding trail of clues to uncover the thought-provoking truth about the missing girl and the weeping painting’s mystifying tears‚ all pursued as he comes face to face with his own personal demons. Are the tears manmade or a sign of God’s displeasure with Guid’Antonio himself? Equally disturbing, a revered painting of the Virgin Mary is weeping in Guid’Antonio’s family church. Marauding Turks have abducted a young girl and sold her into slavery. One last chance to save the Republic.įlorentine investigator Guid’Antonio Vespucci returns to Italy from a government mission to find his dreams of peace shattered. Alana's articles and book reviews appear regularly in the "Historical Novels Review." In children's books (Middle Grade), she is the author of Come Next Spring, a coming-of-age novel set in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee in the 1940s, and a biography, Sacagawea: Westward with Lewis and Clark.Series: The Guid’Antonio Vespucci Mysteries, Book 1įlorence, 1480: Guid’Antonio Vespucci is back in town.
Alana is a member of the Authors Guild, Sisters in Crime, the Women's National Book Association, and the Historical Novel Society. Alana's first short story featuring real-life fifteenth-century lawyer Guid'Antonio Vespucci and his favorite nephew, Amerigo Vespucci, was a Macavity Award finalist and led to the Guid'Antonio Vespucci Mystery Series featuring The Sign of the Weeping Virgin (Book I) and The Hearts of All on Fire (Book II), with Book III Coming Soon. There along cobbled streets unchanged over the centuries, she traces their footsteps, listening to their imagined voices: Guid'Antonio Vespucci, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, Lorenzo de' Medici.
Alana White Author Alana White's passion for Renaissance Italy has taken her to Florence for research on the Vespucci and Medici families on numerous occasions.
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