![]() And to complicate matters: Massimo, a married man whose tender attentions render Lucy breathless. The villa harbors secrets: a missing manuscript, neighbors whose Byzantine arrogance veils their dark past, a phantom whose nocturnal visits tear a gaping hole in Lucy’s well honed skepticism. What begins as a grim chore soon threatens Stark’s Emersonian self reliance and her very sense of what is real. When he dies at his villa in Tuscany, Lucy flies to Tuscany to settle his affairs. Lucy leads a quiet, solitary life working for a best selling but remarkably untalented writer. ![]() Part romance, part gothic suspense story and wholly entertaining, Italian Fever is the story of the awakening of Lucy Stark, an American pragmatist. Charmingly old fashioned.’ Los Angeles TimesIn Italian Fever, Valerie Martin redefines the Gothic novel in a compelling tale of one woman’s headlong tumble into a mystery, art, and eros. ![]()
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