The Siren's Rose

She is the eldest daughter of the most powerful family in Florence, the Vieri family, forced to marry the Venetian Doge, a man more than ten years her senior. He is the Cardinal's illegitimate son and the Pope's twin brother, with a thousand faces, in love with someone he should never have loved. She is a canary in a gilded cage, and a rose that has climbed over the wall. He is an enchanting siren of the sea, and an iris devoted to one love. If mermaids really existed, what would the world on land look like to him from the bottom of the sea? The poor toil on the docks to make ends meet, while masked nobles dance slowly by candlelight. If only she could become a mermaid and flee into the sea, away from the castle, away from the crowds, away from power and desire, to stay by the siren's side, listen to his sweet words and his gentle songs, and let him lull her to sleep and hold her forever. Aloof noblewoman x handsome, many-sided singer Theme: The coming-of-age story of a noblewoman