The Food Taster

Abducted from his farm and sent to the estate of Duke Federico Basillione DiVincelli along with his teenage daughter Miranda, Ugo DiFonte is stunned to find himself replacing the former royal food taster and must negotiate a delicate balance between staying alive, protecting MIranda, dealing with the prince's many enemies, and holding the court together, in a novel set in sixteenth-century Italy. Reprint.