Empty Theatre: A Novel by Jac Jemc by Jemc, Jac

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

History knows them as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, icons of the late nineteenth century who died young and left behind magnificent portraits and palaces. But to each other they were Ludwig and Sisi, cousins who shared a passion for beauty and a refusal to submit to the roles imposed upon them. Ludwig, spoiled and punished for his “unmanly” interests, falls hard for the operas of Richard Wagner and neglects his state duties in the pursuit of art. Sisi, married at th