The Stone Witch of Florence: A Novel by Anna Rasche Puzzles told with profound intelligence and

told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety

but finding them will require Diem to face painful truths about her mother

and a muse to Emerson

a child who was presumed drowned two years earlier

The Stone Witch of Florence: A Novel by Anna Rasche Puzzles told with profound intelligence and1348. As the Black Plague ravages Italy, Ginevra di Gasparo is summoned to Florence after nearly a decade of lonely exile. Ginevra has a giftharnessing the hidden powers of gemstones, she can heal the sick. But when word spread of her unusual abilities, she was condemned as a witch and banished. Now the same men who expelled Ginevra are begging for her return. Ginevra obliges, assuming the citys leaders are finally ready to accept her unorthodox cures