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The Visconti Devils.


The Visconti Devils

Ria Dimitra

Ragnell Press

P.O. Box 1741, Tallahassee, FL 32302

097541741X $6.95 www.ragnellpress.com 1-850-877-4582

The Visconti Devils is an original fantasy romance novel A romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. To be considered a part of the romance genre, a novel should place its primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally  about an artist dedicated to painting tarot tarot

Sets of cards used in fortune-telling and in certain card games. The origins of tarot cards are obscure; cards approximating their present form first appeared in Italy and France in the late 14th century.
 cards, who falls deeply in love with a museum curator. He shows her a rare 15th century Visconti tarot deck, from which the card of the Devil is missing--just as it is missing from every other known copy of the ancient deck. Obsessed ob·sess  
v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es

v.tr.
To preoccupy the mind of excessively.

v.intr.
 with finding the missing card because The Devil is the one card she cannot decide how to paint, the artist and her love embark on Verb 1. embark on - get off the ground; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans  a quest to Italy in search of the secret; yet a far larger scheme of events is unfolding around them, one that will thrust them into a desperate struggle between the forces of light and darkness. An engaging and atmospheric novel of love, adventure, and the darker side of the search for creative inspiration.
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