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Praise for Beyond the Ghetto Gates

“With vivid clarity and keen historical insight, Michelle Cameron sweeps us into the unusual setting of Italy during the Napoleonic invasion, and the plight of two courageous women of different faiths, who must fight for their right to love and live during a time of tumultuous upheaval.” – C.W. Gortner, international bestselling author of The Romanov Empress

“Beyond the Ghetto Gates is one of those novels which is so evocative, so compelling, that after you’ve finished you’re left thinking about the book for days. Beautifully written and completely engaging! ” – Michelle Moran, bestselling author of The Second Empress and Madame Tussaud

“Michelle Cameron’s powerful new novel Beyond the Ghetto Gates is a passionately compelling saga of an ancient way of life on the threshold of radical change. Young Mirelle longs to dedicate her life to running her aging father’s workshop, but her rabbi forbids her on account of her sex. Chafing against the constraints of both her gender and the suffocating strictures of the Ancona ghetto, Mirelle sees no way forward but dutiful marriage. Yet Napoleon’s armies, sweeping across Europe, threaten to change her way of life forever.”  – Mary Sharratt, author of Ecstasy and The Dark Lady’s Mask

“Fascinating! Cameron shines a light on a rarely explored facet of the Napoleonic era set in the Italian provinces with a spirited Jewish woman at its center. Laced with vibrant detailing and endearing characters, Beyond the Ghetto Gates is a compelling and satisfying read.” – Heather Webb, international bestselling author of Becoming Josephine and co-author of Ribbons of Scarlet

“What forces are unleashed when the world turns upside down? In Beyond the Ghetto Gates, Michelle Cameron tells a story of sweeping romance at a moment in history when the world really was turned upside down – Napoleon’s 1797 conquest of Italy. The campaign challenged the established order of nations and the power of the Church and changed forever the life of Italy’s Jews. Napoleon unlocked their ghetto gates to emancipate them. In this novel, Cameron vividly imagines the impact these events have on a young Jewish woman of Ancona in her search for love and an independent life. Beyond the Ghetto Gates is an intimate tale of love vs. duty, of passion vs obligation, set against the backdrop of epic events. This is a historical novel with deep contemporary relevance.” – Michael Goldfarb, author of Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews From the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance

“In reading Beyond the Ghetto Gates, I fell in love with the protagonist, Mirelle, intelligent, passionate, and determined to find her place and follow her heart in a turbulent time. A totally new and fascinating view of Napoleonic Europe, teeming with well-researched historical detail and characters you’ll root for on every page.” – Nancy Bilyeau, author of The Blue

“An intimate coming-of-age story. A defining moment in European and Jewish history. Riveting and memorable.” – Mitchell James Kaplan, award-winning author of By Fire, By Water, as well as Into the Unbounded Night and Rhapsody

“Against the backdrop of Napoleon’s invasion of Italy, Michelle Cameron weaves an immersive tale of a young Jewish woman torn between her filial duty and passion for a young Catholic soldier. Her portrait of Jews and Catholics grappling with social upheaval in an 18th century harbor town shines a light on the challenges of nationalism, religion, and bigotry that still plague society today.” – Talia Carner, author of The Third Daughter, Jerusalem Maiden and others

“Cameron’s vivid page-turner delivers a shattering portrait of love, lust, war, betrayal and faith inside the gates of a famed Jewish ghetto in late 18th century Italy.  Best of all, Beyond the Ghetto Gates gives us Mirelle, a brave and brilliant young heroine who learns that faith in one’s self is the greatest faith of all.” – Laurie Lico Albanese, author of Stolen Beauty

“In this sweeping saga, Michelle Cameron draws a compelling portrait of life in late 18th century Italy when the citizens of war-torn Ancona face the challenges of their world transformed by Napoleon’s liberating army. From the Jews who are suddenly freed from the restrictive confines of the city’s ghetto to the Catholics whose deep devotion is set on fire by a miraculous weeping portrait of the Madonna, Beyond the Ghetto Gates captures the double-edged sword of passion and faith.” – Judith Lindbergh, author of The Thrall’s Tale

“I devoured this engrossing, passionate story of a young Jewish woman in 1796 who wants only to work with her beloved father in his workshop. But even after Napoleon invades Italy, liberates her city and breaks down the ghetto gates, customs still enclose Mirelle both as a Jew and a woman. And outside the gates are waiting the riots of anti-Semitism, tragic loss, and a difficult love.

“The pages of the novel are splashed with brilliant colors between the dark corners of this lost world where ghetto buildings are built so close and high that people cannot see the stars. You will live and breathe this young woman’s struggles to have what she wants and still honor her family until the unexpected last paragraphs – and then for a long time after.” – Stephanie Cowell, author of Claude & Camile, The Players: A Novel of the Young Shakespeare, and others

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