Snow Without Winter

It is 1492. Pope Sisinnius Sextus has just won the Papacy. He sends for his granddaughter, Renata, from the only home she has ever known in Ostia by the sea, to make her a piece on the board of the game he plays in Rome, where all roads lead.

Cardinal Beniamino Solo, esteemed Cardinal of the College, who was put there by hands he loathes, prides himself on never once breaking his vows of chastity. He then meets the Lady Renata di Palatine, and his soul is cast into mortal peril...