St. Martin's Press
April 2013
On Sale: April 9, 2013
384 pages ISBN: 0312631669 EAN: 9780312631666 Kindle: B008SB23VW Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Moving from the hills above Nice to the canals and romance
of Venice and the riot-filled streets of Libya, Secrets From
The Past is a moving and emotional story of secrets,
survival and love in its many guises. Thirty-year old Serena
Stone is a war photographer who has followed in her famous
father's footsteps. But after eight years, the danger and
adrenaline rush take their toll. When her legendary father
dies unexpectedly, she steps away from the war zone to
reassess her life. Serena begins to write her father's
biography, takes the first chapters to Harry Redford, his
best friend and frontline colleague. Harry asks Serena to go
to Venice to look after her former lover and colleague,
Zachary North, who has come out of the Afghan battlefields
suffering from mental and physical exhaustion. Against her
better judgment, Serena agrees to go to Zac's side ...It is
Zac who offers to help her tackle her father's huge legacy
of iconic photographs. One collection about Venice, entitled
La Serenissima, has never been seen before. It is among
these images that Serena stumbles across pictures that
threaten to turn her world upside down. In search of the
truth about her father, her family and her own life, Serena
traces the secrets of the past in a quest to understand a
story from decades earlier.