The Stargazer Progenitor

Usa: Pocket. Slight edgwear to DJ, Otherwise a FINE copy.. 1999. SFBC. Hardcover. 0671027395 . Michele Jaffe's sensual new novel <i>Stargazer</i>, set against the exquisite background of Renaissance Venice, is the story of a brilliant and beautiful doctor's daughter and the aristocratic rogue who crosses her path. Each suspects the other of killing a well-known courtesan; when they're forced to team up to prove their innocence, sparks fly. Jaffe is a Renaissance scholar, so she knows the era -- and she knows the romance as well: this is timeless historical fiction, with the kind of luminous heat that shines from the romance shelves. Dust Jacket, 400 p., Slight edgwear to DJ, Otherwise a FINE copy. .