Changeling

The year is 1492. Eighteen-year-old Luca De Vere is brilliant, gorgeous��nd a heretic. Cast out of his religious order for using scientific knowledge to prove that a divine revelation was faked, Luca is recruited into a secret sect: The Order of the Dragon, headed by none other than Pope Nicholas V, investigates strange occurrences across Europe, and Luca is now part of the Order.

���� Isolde is a seventeen-year-old girl who's been shut up in a nunnery so she can't inherit any of her deceased father's estate. Because of mysterious happenings at the nunnery, Isolde is accused of witchcraft��nd Luca is sent to investigate her.

���� Despite the conventions of their time, an attraction grows between Luca and Isolde, and, traveling across Europe, they encounter alchemists, poisoners, inquisitors, and purported witches as they head toward a real-life historical figure who may hold the power of the Order of the Dragon.

���� The first in a series, this epic and richly detailed drama is firmly rooted in historical fact, and Philippa Gregory's trademark touch deftly brings the past��nd its salacious scandals��o life.