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Bestselling author Sarah Penner shares her new book "The Amalfi Curse." Registration is required for this free author event.
A nautical archaeologist searching for sunken treasure unearths a centuries-old curse, powerful witchcraft and perilous love on the high seas in Sara Penner's spellbinding new novel. Haven Ambrose, a trailblazing nautical archaeologist, has come to the sun-soaked village of Positano to investigate the mysterious shipwrecks along the Amalfi Coast and to locate a trove of priceless gemstones her late father spotted on his final dive. Two centuries earlier, Mari DeLuca and the women of her village practice the legendary art of stregheria, a magical ability to harness the power of the ocean. As their leader, Mari protects Positano with her witchcraft, but she has been plotting to run away with her lover, a sailor aboard a merchant ship owned by the nefarious Mazza brothers. When the Mazzas learn about the women of Positano, they devise a plan to kidnap several of Mari’s friends. As Haven searches for her father’s sunken treasure, she begins to unearth Mari's tale. Can she unravel the Amalfi Curse before the region is destroyed forever? Against the dazzling backdrop of the Amalfi Coast, this bewitching novel shimmers with mystery, romance and the untamed magic of the sea.
Sarah Penner is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary and The London Séance Society. A graduate of the University of Kansas, she spent thirteen years working in corporate America before transitioning to writing full‑time, and today she lives in Florida.
Book sales and signing will follow the conversation. Registration is required for this free author event. Presented by the Carmel Clay Public Library Foundation.
