Synopsis... When Betty Jewel realises her time is running out, she places an advert in a newspaper for a mother for her young daughter, Billie, and the advert is seen by Cassie Malone, a part-time journalist, struggling with widowhood. Intrigued by the advert, Cassie attempts to get an interview with Betty Jewel but she gets more than she bargained for when she learns her deceased husband had a one night stand with Betty Jewel which resulted in Billie. Cassie is completely devastated by ... View the Post
Archives for May 2014
The Summer House by Christobel Kent
Synopsis... The Summer House tells the story of Rose Fell, a recently divorced journalist who decides to start a new life in the village of Grosso, near Genoa. After a year in the village, Rose is still trying to find her place and is intrigued when her boss asks her to get an interview with a former model and film star, Elvira Vitale, who has a villa nearby. Elvira Vitale has made some terrible choices but none more so than her third husband, Jack, who appears to be controlling her ... View the Post
The Daughter of Siena by Marina Fiorato
Synopsis... It's 1729, and the Palio, a white-knuckle horse race, is soon to be held in the heart of the peerless Tuscan city of Siena. But the beauty and pageantry masks the deadly rivalry that exists among the city's districts. Each ward, represented by an animal symbol, puts forth a rider to claim the winner's banner, but the contest turns citizens into tribes and men into beasts—and beautiful, headstrong, young Pia Tolomei is in love with a rider of an opposing ward, an outsider who ... View the Post
A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon Bolton
Synopsis After being directly involved in a few high profile cases, Lacey Flint has quit her job as a detective for the sake of her sanity and is now working with the river police. However, that doesn't mean Lacey has stopped taking risks as she has taken up swimming in the dangerous waters of the Thames and she gets more than she bargained for when she comes across the shrouded body of a woman. When more bodies are discovered, Lacey soon finds herself working alongside her old colleagues ... View the Post
The Madonna of the Almonds by Marina Fiorato
Synopsis... The Madonna of the Almonds tells the story of seventeen year-old Simonetta di Saronno, who loses her husband in battle and is left destitute due to his mismanagement of their estate. Devastated by grief and friendless, Simonetta must fight to save her home by forming an unlikely alliance with a Jewish business man known as Manodorata and by posing for the famous artist, Bernardino Luini. When Bernardino arrives in Saronno, he is immediately captivated by Simonetta and realises ... View the Post
The Villa by Rosanna Ley
Synopsis... Shocked to discover she has been left a villa by a complete stranger, Tess realises her Sicilian mother, Flavia, has secrets that may hold the key to the truth regarding her inheritance, so she travels to Sicily to learn more. For Flavia, the inheritance brings back bitter memories of feuding families and a war time romance that was cruelly taken away from her by her domineering father. Unable to stop Tess from going to Sicily, Flavia realises it is time to confront her past ... View the Post