Ashes on the Arno: A Renaissance Thriller

By Chona McGrenery

Florence, 1497. As Savonarola's bonfires devour paintings and books, a young bookbinder's daughter pulls a single sheet of vellum from the flames: a fragment of a forbidden map written in cipher. When her father is seized for heresy, Lia di Bartolo must decode the riddle hidden in ink and ash before a zealous friar burns Florence's last cache of humanist manuscripts-and her family with it.

Chased through workshops and cathedrals, across the Duomo's dizzying heights and into the water-black vaults beneath the Ponte Vecchio, Lia teams with a streetwise thief and a disillusioned Medici agent. Each clue unlocks another, each choice costs more than the last. To save the words that make a civilization-and the people she loves-Lia must risk becoming a heretic in a city that has forgotten how to breathe.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FNCMV34Z
• ISBN13: 9798298997072
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"