Description: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.