One moment she's racing through the Tuscan hills with her future in her hands. The next, she's upside down in a ditch — and the dangerously attractive stranger pulling her out of the mud is the only thing standing between her and losing everything.
Clio Sinclair McBeal is a brilliant art historian clinging to her last shot at a PhD — and the grudging approval of the demanding academic parents who have mapped out every step of her life. She doesn't have time for detours. She especially doesn't have time for Guillermo d'Aldobrandin.
But Guillermo — celebrated Florentine architect, reckless, magnetic, and entirely too perceptive — is about to lose something irreplaceable. Villa Cielo Incantato, his family's breathtaking Renaissance estate on the Tuscan hillside, is slipping through his fingers, along with four hundred years of history. And somehow, despite every sensible instinct she possesses, Clio cannot walk away.
What begins as an unlikely alliance becomes something neither of them planned for — as Tuscany works its slow, golden magic and Guillermo begins to see through every careful wall she has ever built.
For readers of Santa Montefiore and Kate Morton — a luminous story of art, passion, and the courage it takes to finally claim the life you didn't know you were allowed to want.
Sometimes the most important detour is the one you never saw coming.
Winner of the Chatelaine Grand Prize for Romance and Women's Fiction.
