Eternally Artemisia: Some loves, like some women, are timeless., Muldoon Melissa P.

They say some loves travel through time and are fated to meet over and over again. For Maddie, an art therapist, who wrestles with the peculiar feeling she has lived previous lives and is being called to Italy by voices that have left imprints on her soul, this idea is intriguing. Despite her best efforts, however, proof of this has always eluded her. That is, until one illuminating summer in Italy when Maddies previous existences start to bleed through into her current reality. When she is introduced to the Crociani family--a noble clan with ties to the seventeenth-century Medici court that boasts of ancestors with colorful pasts--she finally meets the loves of her life. One is a romantic love, and another is a special kind of passion that only women share, strong amongst those who have suffered greatly yet have triumphed despite it. As Maddies relationship develops with Artemisia Gentileschi--an artist who in a time when it was unheard of to denounce a man for the crime of rape, did just that--Maddie discovers a kindred spirit and a role model, and just what women are capable of when united together. In a journey that arcs back to biblical days and moves forward in time, Maddie encounters artists, dukes, designers, and movie stars as well as baser and ignoble men. With Artemisia never far from her side, she proves that when we dare to take control of our lives and find the thing we are most passionate about, we are limitless and can touch the stars.