The Mapmaker

TREACHERY! 

Andrea Bianco had been a happy man the day he sailed from Venice to Trebizond. He and his betrothed, Angelita, had spent their last evening together in the summerhouse. To him she had always seemed like a goddess, remote and unattainable. That night he found her in his arms, matching his own desire with an even greater one. 

But Andrea's ship was captured, and he was sold as a galley slave. 

Now he had escaped. But the first night he was back in Venice someone tried to murder him. Then he discovered that his half brother had seized the family fortune and married Angelita. How could Andrea regain his freedom? His beloved? His riches?