The Carnival Of Ash

A City of Poets and Dreamers, Liars and Cheats...Tommaso Cellini, celebrated ruler of Cadenza, is dead, and the city mourns. For Carlo Mazzoni, an aspiring poet, it was the day of his arrival in the City of Words and the end of his dreams to walk side-by-side with the great man, two artists together.For Vittoria - known to all but a handful as the famed ink maid Hypatia - the death of a ruler is less troubling than her sadness and inability to write. Without it, her ad