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He thought he must have hit the man, but then saw the engineer had been picking up his straw hat that must have fallen as he reacted to the close passage of the spinning bullet.
Caterina suffered much cruelty as an unmarried mother and had no recourse when her Novelist Robin Maxwell delves into the life of Caterina--the adventurer, alchemist, and mother of Leonardo da Vinci. Not a bad read, but nothing special. Sep 14, Cj W rated it liked it. Many of the details around the novel did ring true to the time period but there were places where there was obviously much license taken and took me out of the book in distraction. However, Maxwell uses what little information we know and creates an enchanting piece of historical fiction.
He derived little comfort from knowing this, however, because he was dead. His head popped up from his book, just in time to catch her streaking past. Wrestling with the wagons had put them behind schedule and he did not want to start off on the wrong foot with lord knight sykes by showing up late.