The Frog Asylum by Lia Scott Price

Out of print title.

Set in a Spanish port city in 15th-century Philippines, The Frog Asylum is the story of a doomed love affair between Isabel de Alava, daughter of a Spanish nobleman, and Marcus Abella, a half-breed mestizo and musical protégé of an archbishop.Isabel, the only child of the richest nobleman in the city of La Noble Villa de Pila, married to an abusive man old enough to be her own father, falls madly and passionately in love with the insecure Marcus, choirmaster to the city's church, who is torn between his Spanish upbringing and his grandfather's legacy as a native Malay king who once ruled Pila and was exiled for rebellion against the Spanish colonists. In an era where the slightest religious and moral transgression merits death, Isabel andMarcus tempt fate through secret meetings deep in the catacombs of the archbishop's palace. Eventually arrested and accused of adultery, witchcraft, and debauchery, Isabel eventually goes mad in the inquisitors' prisons, while Marcus escapes and leaves Isabel to her fate.The Frog Asylum is a tapestry of love lost and sacrificed, of dreams and tortured reality, of lust and betrayal, of social discord and all-too-human vices, and of unsettling martyrdom.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ iUniverse (December 13, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 108 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0595155561
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0595155569
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.27 x 9 inches