The Seventh Veil of Salome'Absolutely not to be missed' Kate Quinn on this sumptuous historical epic from the author of Mexican Gothic. Golden Age Hollywood a city overflowing with gossip, scandal, and intrigue. Every actress wants to play Salome, the star making role in a big budget movie about the legendary temptress. So when the film's mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an unknown Mexican ingenue, in the lead role, she quickly becomes the talk of the town. Vera also

they long for armed revolution

whose walls have kept them at bay for ten long years

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression

the judicial duels between husbands and wives in Early Modern Europe

a prince turned training partner

And now he has a postcard of a lighthouse built just six months ago

a place where supposedly he can do little harm

a beautiful former Hollywood actress

can they determine the future for themselves

or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls

but Starling's memory is fractured and only occasional flashbacks reveal fragments of his past

an enigmatic priest who seems to know rather too much about the abductions