ASIN: B08FMWPPDN
Publisher: Bookouture
Pages: 472
Naples, Italy, 1940. In the courtyard of the palazzo overlooking a sparkling bay, the scent of ripening lemons fills the air. His deep brown eyes gaze into hers with determination and longing. ‘Will you do it? Risk everything and join us?’Twenty-one-year-old Imogen Fitzgerald is a nanny, working in a grand family home with views across the bay of Naples when World War Two breaks out. As an Englishwoman, overnight she becomes an enemy of Italy. But with her cold and intimidating employer away fighting for the fascists, she refuses to leave the two innocent children he left in her care. She hopes her dark hair and perfect Italian will protect her identity, for now…One morning, as shadows of bombs darken the azure-blue waters of the bay, the children’s estranged uncle Fabrizio arrives. Imogen knows she is forbidden to speak to him, but when they secretly meet in the lemon groves, his ...
