First published 2023
Twenty-three-year-old Cosima Saverio never expected to run the family business. After a tragic accident kills her parents, she suddenly controls a four-hundred-year-old palazzo in Venice and must care for her remaining family. The weight of generations presses on her shoulders as she struggles to keep the ancient building and the family enterprise alive. Just when stability seems within reach, and her friendship with handsome handbag entrepreneur Olivier Bayard deepens into something more, disaster strikes again. Her brother Luca loses a massive sum gambling, creating debts that threaten everything. Cosima faces three terrible options: sell the beloved palazzo that has housed her family for centuries, surrender part of the business her ancestors built, or abandon Luca to face the consequences alone. Each choice means sacrificing something precious. As creditors circle and time runs out, Cosima must find the strength to save her legacy or discover whether love and family matter more than stone and tradition.
Genres: romance, historical-fiction, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-drama, found-family
Setting: Venice
Period: 21st-century
256 pages · Hardcover · Delacorte Press