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The House By the Sea, EPUB eBook

The House By the Sea EPUB

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An irresistibly compelling from the internationally bestselling authorTen-year-old Floriana is captivated by the beauty of the magnificent Tuscan villa that overlooks the sea just outside her small village.

She likes to spy from the crumbling wall into the gardens, and imagine that one day she'll escape her meagre existence and live there.

One day, Dante, the son of the villa's powerful industrialist owner, invites her inside. From that moment on Floriana knows that her destiny is there, with him. But as they grow up they cross an unseen line, jeopardising the very thing they hold most dear. Decades later and hundreds of miles away, a beautiful old country house hotel on England's Devon coast has fallen on hard times. Its owner, Marina, advertises for an artist-in-residence to stay the summer and teach the guests how to paint. Rafael Santoro is charismatic and wise, and soon begins to pacify the discord in her family.

However, Rafa is not who he seems. He has his own agenda. Whether to destroy, to seduce, or to heal, it is certain to affect them all. Spanning four decades and sweeping from the Italian countryside to the English coast, this new story by Santa Montefiore is a moving and mysterious tale of love, forgiveness and the past revealed. This book has been published in the US under the title The Mermaid Garden.

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