Golden Heart finalist Joanna Shupe’s COURTESAN DUCHESS, in which a deserted Duchess who hasn’t seen the stranger she married since her wedding day 8 years ago tracks her rakehell husband to Venice and poses as a courtesan to cunningly produce an heir and secure her future, to Peter Senftleben at Kensington, in a nice deal, in a three-book deal, for publication beginning in early 2015, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency.