Pan Macmillan
July 2018
On Sale: July 1, 2018
Featuring: Elena Damiani; Francesca Hackett
480 pages ISBN: 1509838023 EAN: 9781509838028 Kindle: B01NCEDXT4 Trade Size / e-Book Add to Wish List
1974 and Elena Damiani lives a gilded life. Born to wealth
and a noted beauty, no door is closed to her, no man can
resist her. At 26, she is already onto her third husband
when she meets her love match. But he is the one man she can
never have, and all the beauty and money in the world can't
change it.
2017 and Francesca Hackett is living la dolce
vita in Rome, leading tourist groups around the Eternal City
and forgetting the ghosts she left behind in London. When
she finds a stolen designer handbag and returns it, she is
brought into the orbit of her grand neighbor who lives
across the piazza—famed socialite Viscontessa Elena dei
Damiani Pignatelli della Mirandola. Though the purse is
stolen, Elena greets the return of the bag with exultation
for it contains an unopened letter written by her husband on
his deathbed, 12 years earlier. Mutually intrigued by each
other, the two women agree to collaborate on a project, with
Cesca interviewing Elena for her memoirs.
As summer unfurls,
Elena tells her sensational stories, leaving Cesca in her
thrall. But when a priceless diamond ring found in an
ancient tunnel below the city streets is ascribed to Elena,
Cesca begins to suspect a shocking secret at the heart of
Elena's life.
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