Glorious spring has arrived in Todi. Will friendship and hope blossom as well?After a successful seasonal opening in April, friends Emma and Annarita are eager to welcome a new set of guests to their Umbrian inn during the full bloom of May.Upstate New Yorker Lisa needs an escape from betrayal and the prying eyes of her smalltown neighbors. Elderly, reclusive artist Antonio hopes leaving Milan for a country sojourn will spark his long dormant creative muse....

Friendship. Love. Loss. New beginnings.Find it all at The Three Coins Inn.It's been four years since Emma, Annarita and Tiffany threw their coins in Rome's Trevi Fountain and cemented a friendship that would change their lives, in more ways than one. Emma has departed Rome for the charming Umbrian village of Todi, where she's busy managing the Three Coins Inn, while Annarita and her husband run the hotel's cooking classes.A new set of hotel guests de...

Two women. Two different centuries. One attic roomAmerican Isabelle Field has been shipped off to Rome to live with her aunt, Princess Elizabeth Brancaccio. Isabelle’s aunt and mother share a common goal – replicating Elizabeth’s success by marrying Isabelle off to a European nobleman.But Rome in 1896 is on the cusp of a new century and Isabelle longs for more than a titled husband. She secretly designs costumes for Rome’s burgeoning theatre environment and...

When you wake up in Bath, England two hundred years in the past, how far can a love of Jane Austen get you?Janet Roberts dreams of an academic career in literature, so she can hardly believe her good fortune when she’s accepted into a Jane Austen graduate seminar in Bath, England. Settled in Georgian splendor among her seminar colleagues, Janet and her classmates live, eat and breathe Jane Austen.An accident interrupts this idyll when Janet regains consciou...

An American divorcée. An Italian shepherdess. Separated by a century, united by common dreamsThe sleepy little Abruzzo mountain town of Marsicano seems about as far as Samantha can flee from her failed marriage and disastrous university career. Eager for a fresh start, Samantha begins to set down roots in her Italian mountain hideaway.At first, the mountain retreat appears idyllic, but an outsider’s clumsy attempts at breaking into the closed mountain commu...

Glorious spring has arrived in Todi. Will friendship and hope blossom as well?After a successful seasonal opening in April, friends Emma and Annarita are eager to welcome a new set of guests to their Umbrian inn during the full bloom of May.Upstate New Yorker Lisa needs an escape from betrayal and the prying eyes of her smalltown neighbors. Elderly, reclusive artist Antonio hopes leaving Milan for a country sojourn will spark his long dormant creative muse....

Italian Tales of love, betrayal, longing, desire - and hopeItaly serves as the backdrop for stories of Italian women and expatriate women living in Italy.A freak snowstorm in Rome changes the travel plans of two women, touching their lives in ways they could never have imagined. An ambitious Italian professional working in Brussels rails inwardly at her privileged boss, until fate presents her with a rare opportunity. A long desired trip to Bali, Indonesia ...

One Eternal City. Three women. Three wishes. Three coins.Emma, an American expat living in Rome for twenty years, can’t count on her ex-husband to help out with the kids when things get tough. Dario Rinaldi, famed plastic surgeon to the stars, is too busy gallivanting around Europe with young women to take an interest in his family.Beautiful Tiffany, born and bred in Iowa, is desperate to get a spot as a dancer on an Italian television show. But is she willing to d...

Friendship. Love. Loss. New beginnings.Find it all at The Three Coins Inn.It's been four years since Emma, Annarita and Tiffany threw their coins in Rome's Trevi Fountain and cemented a friendship that would change their lives, in more ways than one. Emma has departed Rome for the charming Umbrian village of Todi, where she's busy managing the Three Coins Inn, while Annarita and her husband run the hotel's cooking classes.A new set ...

Two women. Two different centuries. One attic roomAmerican Isabelle Field has been shipped off to Rome to live with her aunt, Princess Elizabeth Brancaccio. Isabelle's aunt and mother share a common goal - replicating Elizabeth's success by marrying Isabelle off to a European nobleman.But Rome in 1896 is on the cusp of a new century and Isabelle longs for more than a titled husband. She secretly designs costumes for Rome's burgeoning theatre environment and...

Italian Tales of love, betrayal, longing, desire - and hopeItaly serves as the backdrop for stories of Italian women and expatriate women living in Italy.A freak snowstorm in Rome changes the travel plans of two women, touching their lives in ways they could never have imagined. An ambitious Italian professional working in Brussels rails inwardly at her privileged boss, until fate presents her with a rare opportunity. A long desired trip to Bali, I...

Feisty women spanning six centuries ...The twenty-three stories in this collection depict ordinary women—from the 1470s to the 1970s—who meet life’s challenges with fierce determination.An unhappy housewife in 1950s California gathers the courage to escape an abusive marriage. When local men are shipped off to WWI, a young Yorkshire woman joins others to keep a munitions factory at peak operation. As her land and way of life are threatened, a nineteenth century Chi...