{"product_id":"book-dc7k","title":"A Brightness Long Ago","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInternational bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eIn a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra's intelligence won him entry to a renowned school even though he was only the son of a tailor. He took service at the court of a ruling count-and soon learned why that man was known as the Beast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eDanio's fate changed the moment he saw and recognized Adria Ripoli as she entered the count's chambers one autumn night-intending to kill. Born to power, Adria had chosen, instead of a life of comfort, one of danger-and freedom. Which is how she encounters Danio in a perilous time and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eVivid figures share the unfolding story. Among them: a healer determined to defy her expected lot; a charming, frivolous son of immense wealth; a powerful religious leader more decadent than devout; and, affecting all these lives and many more, two larger-than-life mercenary commanders, lifelong adversaries, whose rivalry puts a world in the balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Brightness Long Ago\u003c\/em\u003e offers both compelling drama and deeply moving reflections on the nature of memory, the choices we make in life, and the role played by the turning of Fortune's wheel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Strong historical research and worldbuilding, a vast cast of characters, world-changing events … An epic tale filled with characters compelling enough to bear the weight of the high stakes.\"\u003c\/em\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49377852588336,"sku":"BDdc7k","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49377852621104,"sku":"ZEdc7k","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dc7k-cover.jpg?v=1762550905","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dc7k","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}