A timeless story of family, war, art, and betrayal set around an ancient, ancestral home in the Tuscan countryside from bestselling novelist Valerie Martin.
When Jan, an American academic, rents an apartment in a Tuscan villa for the summer, she plans to spend her break writing a biography of Mussolini.
Instead, she finds herself captivated by her hostess, the elegant, acerbic Beatrice.
Beatrice's family ties to Villa Chiara and the land on which it stands extend back genera.
