Silk Merchant’s Daughters

The Silk Merchant’s Daughters series written by Beatrice Small is composed of books that revolve around romance and family issues .They focus on the romantic journeys of Giovanni’s children, a business man who lives in Italy. One of the earlier books of this sequel is the Bianca which addresses a tale about a pretty lady, Bianca Maria Rosa who is the heroine of the tale. She is popularly known in the Florentine community which she comes from and many people anticipate that she will get a perfect husband. However, things do not turn as expected due to Bianca’s brother involvement in an awful road accident which results into Bianca being the one to pay for the consequences. He tries to conceal his connection to the incident and a result he messes up by putting his family into danger of being blackmailed by Sebastiano Rovere. Sebastiano finds an opportunity of forcefully marrying Bianca by requesting Giovanni to give him his daughter so that he keeps silent. Bianca’s dad has no alternative other than meeting Sebastiano’s demands. Moreover, he would not want his family’s reputation and wealth to be in jeopardy. Even though Bianca is afraid of Sebastiano, she has no option other than to obey her dad’s commands thus she takes the marriage vows.