Fiction debut – Melodie Winawer’s THE SCRIBE OF SIENA pitched as The Girl with a Pearl Earring meets Outlander, in which a twenty-first century female physician is transported back in time to Siena through a 14th century painter’s diary arriving in time to discover a Florentine conspiracy to destroy its rival city Siena as the Plague is about to devastate Italy in a tale of history, art and passion to Susan Moldow and Tara Parsons at Touchstone by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (WE)