{"product_id":"maddalena-and-the-dark-paperback","title":"Maddalena and the Dark (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“[A] beguiling fairy tale.” —\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair \u003c\/i\u003e(A Best Book of Summer)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Enchanted...A slow-burn gothic novel that will make you lose track of your surroundings...An atmospheric banger.” —LitHub\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVenice, 1717. Fifteen-year-old Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at violin. As a student at the Ospedale della Pietà, she hopes to join the highest ranks of its illustrious girls’ orchestra and become a protégé of the great Antonio Vivaldi. Luisa is good at violin, but she is not the best. She has peers, but she does not have friends. Until Maddalena.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After a scandal threatens her noble family’s reputation, Maddalena is sent to the Pietà to preserve her marriage prospects. When she meets Luisa, Maddalena feels the stirrings of a friendship unlike anything she has known. But Maddalena has a secret: she has hatched a dangerous plot to rescue her future her own way. When she invites Luisa into her plans, promising to make her dreams come true, Luisa doesn’t hesitate. But every wager has its price, and as the girls are drawn into the decadent world outside the Pietà’s walls, they must decide what it is they truly want—and what they will do to pay for it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLush and heady, swirling with music and magic, \u003ci\u003eMaddalena and the Dark \u003c\/i\u003eis a Venetian fairytale about the friendship between two girls and the boundless desire that will set them free, if it doesn’t consume them first.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fine, Julia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337260527890,"sku":"9781250867902","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/9593953482633_58fa7ade-9fe5-43cc-9c64-9aec870b0b89.jpg?v=1780438351","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/maddalena-and-the-dark-paperback","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}