Venice, 1784: Minguillo Fasan, heir to the decaying Palazzo Espagnol, is born. Yet Minguillo is no ordinary child; he is strange and devious. Twelve years later Minguillo faces an unexpected threat to his inheritance - a newborn sister.
But in his insatiable, lifelong quest to destroy her, he may have underestimated his sister's ferocious determination, and her unlikely allies, who will go to extraordinary lengths to save her...
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