From nationally bestselling, award-winning author Liam Callanan, the
story of an opportunity to start over at midlife, a chance to save a
struggling convent in the Eternal City, and the dramatic re-emergence of
an old flame . . .
Meet Claire: fifty-two, desperate to do something new and get a fresh
start.
Enter the chance to go to Rome: Home to a struggling convent facing a
precipitous end, the city beckons Claire, who's long had a complicated
relationship with religion, including a "missed connection" with convent
life in her teens. Once in Rome, she finds a group of funny, fearless
nuns in a gorgeous villa, beautiful runs throughout a color-saturated
city, and a chance to reflect. It all leads her to an unexpected
question--should she join the convent?--and an answer that startles her
as much as it does those closest to her.
It also startles Marcus, a once-buzzy actor, devastatingly handsome, who
is eternally in love with Claire. Marcus has come and gone from Claire's
life since college but now reappears in Rome just as she's about to
decide what's next.
As Claire searches for her higher calling, she finds the key to her
future may lay in her past--and involves an actual key. The nuns swear
it unlocks nothing, but on a night when choices and voices swirl, Claire
finds a long-hidden lock.
A look at faith, in oneself as much as a higher power, and love,
romantic and familial, lost and found, this is the thoroughly charming
story of one woman who sets out to rewrite her past and future, only to
be surprised by the plot twists life plants . . . when in Rome*.*
