From the bestselling author of Honeysuckle Season comes a sweeping
saga that interweaves the past and present in an epic tapestry of love,
war, and loss.
As a hospice nurse, Zara Mitchell has already seen more death than most
people will experience in a lifetime. So when her older sister asks her
to help care for their ailing grandmother, Zara agrees--despite strained
family relationships.
Though pale and tired, Nonna has lost none of her sharp mind. She's
fixated on finding something long forgotten, and she immediately puts
Zara to work cleaning out the attic. Unexpectedly, amid the tedium of
sifting through knickknacks and heirlooms, Zara also reconnects with a
man she's attracted to but whose complicated past makes romance seem
impossible.
But then Zara finds what Nonna was looking for: a wooden chest, an
emerald broach, a leather-bound journal. As she immerses herself in
stories of heroism and loss set against the backdrop of war-torn Italy
in 1943, Zara finds answers to questions she didn't know she had. And
they change everything she thinks she knows about love, regret, and
seizing the day.