This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

The award-winning Nico Argenti series is set in Renaissance Florence, a city beset with challenges from ruthless aristocrats, mercenary forces, insurrectionists, and other rogues.

The Laureate begins the series when Nico returns home from the University of Bologna with a Doctor of Law degree. He is eager to begin his career. Instead, he finds his city engulfed in turmoil with power-hungry aristocrats attempting to seize control of the Republic.

Nico is recruited by the Florentine Chancellor to help defeat the conspiracy before it can destabilize the government. He learns that conspirators have hired an assassin to carry out their plan and he must thwart them before the assassin targets him.

The Laureate is an Elit Award Silver Medalist and a Book Excellence Award finalist. In its starred review, Publishers Weekly praised its "... page-turning and suspenseful plot."