The Prince's Doom

By David Blixt

The long-awaited explosive fourth novel in the Star-Cross'd series! Finalist for the 2015 M.M. Bennett Award in Historical Fiction!

1328, Italy. Verona has won its war with Padua, but lost its war with the stars. Heart-broken and alone, his great romance foiled, the young prodigy Cesco turns his troubled brilliance to darker purposes, embracing a riotous life, challenging not only the lord of Verona and the Church, but the stars themselves.

Trying desperately to salvage what's left of his protégé's spirit, for once Pietro Alighieri welcomes the plots and intrigues of the Veronese court, hoping they will shake the young man out of his torpor. But when the first body falls, it becomes clear that this new game is deadly, threatening to doom them all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Blixt
• Release date: Oct 11, 2017
• ISBN: 9781944540074

David Blixt

David Blixt's work is consistently described as "intricate," "taut," and "breathtaking." A writer of historical fiction, his novels span the Roman Empire (the COLOSSUS series, his play EVE OF IDES) to early Renaissance Italy (the STAR-CROSS'D series) through the Elizabethan era (his delightful espionage comedy HER MAJESTY'S WILL, starring Will Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe as hapless spies), to 19th Century feminism (WHAT GIRLS ARE GOOD FOR, his novel of reporter Nellie Bly). During his research, David discovered eleven novels by Bly herself that had been lost for over a century. David's stories combine a love of theatre with a deep respect for the quirks and passions of history. As the Historical Novel Society said, "Be prepared to burn the midnight oil. It's well worth it."Living in Chicago with his wife and two children, David describes himself as an "author, actor, father, husband-in reverse order."