La Bella and Il Mostro part 3 and epilogue
As Jutta entered the ballroom the party guests quieted in overlapping waves, like wheat in a windblown field. The crowd had never seen anything quite like the tall black-clad vision that swept through the room. She wore a midnight silk gown designed by her servant, Samira. Venice was notorious across Europe and the Ottoman for its outrageous costume balls, populated by women who wore the most daring and even scandalous of gowns. But no one had ever seen anything like this. There was no...
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