Ilario:the Stone Golem Book 2

"Fleeing a surprise treacherous murder attempt, the former King's Freak and would-be painter Ilario has run to Carthage, the city-state under perpetual darkness, in search of freedom. But strange plots are afoot, and a tenuous, complicated alliance with a book-seller-turned-spy will lead Ilario from the shrouded land into tense negotiations and intrigues in seductive, mercurial Venice, from a fraught return to Iberia to a final confrontation with family...and destiny."--BOOK JACKET.Gentle, Mary is the author of 'Ilario:the Stone Golem Book 2', published 2007 under ISBN 9780061344985 and ISBN 0061344982.