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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Cross My Heart by Sasha Gould

High School Fiction

G/A. Gould, Sasha. Cross My Heart. Delacorte Press, 2012. 263p. 978-0-385-74150-7. $17.99.

Laura della Scala’s father has ordered her return home after previously forcing her to live at a convent in order to marry her dead sister’s fiancé, Vincenzo, a cruel and selfish man Laura wants nothing to do with.  In order to escape this arranged marriage, she turns to the Segreta for help, a secret society of women who deal only in secrets. After successfully averting the marriage, she sets out to discover the truth of her sister’s death, a drowning she believes to be no accident and gets caught up in the political intrigues of Venice. 

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