The Pindar Diamond — Katie Hickman

In early seventeenth-century Venice, merchant Paul Pindar becomes obsessed with a priceless blue diamond rumored to be circulating, believing it holds a clue to the fate of his lost love, Celia Lamprey. As he attempts to acquire the jewel and reclaim his fortune, Pindar is drawn into a web of danger and avarice that is intertwined with the appearance of a mysterious, crippled woman and a baby the townspeople call a mermaid.

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