The Mirror-Maker of Murano
A Novel of Glass and Fate

About this book:

In the suffocating heat of a 1486 Murano furnace, master glassmaker Orseolo holds a secret more dangerous than the mercury fumes that rot a man’s mind: he can coax sand and ash into *cristallo* so pure it traps the light itself. When a shadowy patrician commissions a mirror of impossible size—one rumored to reveal a man’s very thoughts—Orseolo is drawn into a gilded cage where the penalty for failure is ruin, and the price of perfection is treason.

Venice guards its glass monopoly with assassins and the dread Council of Ten; a single flaw in the silvering could see Orseolo floating in the Giudecca Canal. But as the furnace roars and the political waters rise, the mirror begins to show reflections that haven't happened yet—whispers of a conspiracy that reaches from the Doge’s palace to the dark heart of the lagoon.

*The Mirror-Maker of Murano* is a luminous historical thriller where alchemy meets intrigue, and a craftsman’s obsession with clarity becomes the only weapon sharp enough to cut through a city built on lies.