The Venetian Bargain

Venice, 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man, more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague-and the Turkish sultan has his revenge.

But the ship also holds a secret stowaway-Feyra, a young and beautiful harem doctor fleeing a future as the sultan's concubine. O...