Touring the beautiful art in Italy with your teaching colleagues and slow-quitting boyfriend is like having a nightmare in heaven. May Gold can only escape into daydreams of her hero from the Renaissance, the artist Gianlorenzo Bernini. If only she lived in a more romantic time, a time of beautiful art and passionate geniuses like Bernini. When their tour guide parts time's curtains for May, she comes face-to-face with her handsome, brooding idol. She knows it’s Bernini! That burning gaze captivated countless women, and now it bores through her as she asks herself how she plunged into a distant century. He questions her presence, and when she tells him about his future, he pronounces her his historian. If only he knew she really was! But can she stay long enough to learn what makes a genius tick? And to find out what draws her to him with the force of iron to a magnet. Can she become part of his world and remove the obstacles in his path? As she falls more deeply for Bernini, she's willing to sacrifice her life to improve his future. “A unique and spellbinding twist to the time-traveling adventure.” -- Kerry Lonsdale, bestselling author of THE EVERYTHING SERIES. “If you enjoy Italy, Renaissance art, or watching women make difficult decisions about imperfect relationships, chances are excellent you'll enjoy this novel.” -- Sandra Hutchison, author of THE AWFUL MESS. ~ Read an excerpt of the next novel in THE TIMEGATHERING SERIES at the end of this book, and be swept away into more romantic eras, falling into the arms of time and history. In THE RENAISSANCE CLUB, passion, art, and history come together in this captivating tale of one woman's quest to discover her true self and the life she's meant to lead. Rachel Dacus deftly crafts a unique and spellbinding twist to the time-traveling adventure that's perfect for fans of Susanna Kearsley and Diana Gabaldon. -- Kerry Lonsdale, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of the Everything series. Dacus's debut is a delightful dance between present-day and Renaissance Italy, and will submerge readers in the art of Bernini, Michelangelo, and more. May Gold, a 26-year-old adjunct art history professor from California, has joined her colleagues on their Renaissance club's trip to Italy, where they visit Assisi, Florence, Rome, Siena, and Venice. When May meets their tour guide, George St. James, she's pleased by his playful attitude and intrigued by his hints about the malleability of time. Publishers Weekly (BookLife review). THE RENAISSANCE CLUB is a beautifully written story about a woman torn between two worlds--the present and the distant past. This time-travel adventure kept me guessing until the end about which world May would choose, and if that choice would be the right one. Highly recommended for lovers of time travel fiction or anyone looking for a compelling story about a woman trying to find happiness. -- Annabelle Costa, Author of The Time Traveler's Boyfriend. THE RENAISSANCE CLUB shimmers with beauty, poetry, and art. Author Rachel Dacus sweeps her readers away to Italy with her, lifting the senses with the sights, sounds, and tastes of that stunning country; imparting her deep knowledge of Renaissance and Baroque art while immersing the reader in a gorgeously romantic story. This book is time travel at its best! -- Georgina Young-Ellis, author of The Time Mistress Series I loved the imaginative use of the time travel aspect to provide an insight into Italian art of the Renaissance and the Baroque without feeling that I'd sat through a lecture on art history. I enjoyed seeing the awakening of May's creativity and the effect on her of Bernini's energizing presence: 'I need to learn to flow. Why do I always feel like I'm encased in stone?'. And I found myself applauding the changes she decides to make in her life. -- What Cathy Read Next, a review. Makes you wish time travel was possible. -- Reader review An art history trip to study the Italian Renaissance inspired me to write The Renaissance Club . My father was a painter. I grew up going to art museums and watchinghim and his fellow artists at work in their studio, as well as tryingout my own drawing and painting. Witnessing their creativity andintensity of purpose made me want to use my own imagination to createstories. I'm now working on a novel featuring the time-traveling tourguide from The Renaissance Club, George St. James. Timegathered will be Book Two in my Timegathering series. JANE AUSTEN TIME TRAVELER WINNER, 2ND PLACE -- 2023 INCIPERE BOOK AWARDS, FANTASY! Bridgerton meets Beach Read when Jane Austen leaps into the future, meets her handsome 21st century superfan and joins a time traveling team. "Absolutely amazing... I loved it so much!" *** RACHEL DACUS is the author of six novels and four poetry collections. Rachel Dacus is a poet, essayist, and novelist who writes about love'stimeless truth. It's the theme of her debut novel, THE RENAISSANCE CLUB,