Rome, 1599.
Beatrice yearns to escape the clutches of her abusive father.
Determined to find a way back to Rome, she enlists the help of Olimpio, the castle’s keeper. Soon the love that grows between them will transform Beatrice’s fortunes, for better and for worse. . .
History has sold her short.
She is no doe-eyed victim of her father’s brutality, nor the cunning murderer who plotted her father’s demise.
No, this Beatrice — a woman pregnant by her lover, incarcerated in a remote castle by her father, and brim-full of white-hot rage – is both innocent and guilty, saint and sinner.
And she will stand tall in the face of the violence of men, no matter the cost.
Sinners by Elizabeth Fremantle is published in paperback on 6 August, 2026.
Read Elizabeth’s feature about the mystery surrounding Beatrice Cenci.
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