The Tuscan Child

This menacing book, written by New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen, tells the story of a lady who braves her father's dark history to learn his secrets.

Hugo Langley, a British bomber pilot, survived his crash in 1944 and landed in the lush fields of German-occupied Tuscany. He was severely injured and sought solace in Sofia Bartoli's arms at a deserted abbey. But an irrevocable treachery shattered the love that blossomed between them.

Joanna, Hugo's estranged daughter, has returned to the English countryside over thirty years later to plan her father's burial. He has an unread letter addressed to Sofia among his personal belongings. It contains a shocking discovery.

Joanna, still nursing the mental scars from her own tragedy, travels to Tuscany in order to learn more about her father's past and maybe even learn more about herself. Joanna quickly learns that although some people would rather the past remain unchanged, she has gone too far to give up her father's secrets at this point.