Beyond the shadows

Secrets, lies and a love doomed from the past

The peculiar last wish of an Italian tycoon of agricultural enterprises forces Elvira Andrianou to return to her grandmother’s land and village in Thessaly for three months, in order to get in touch with her roots and the family she never met.
The young fashion painter and photographer, known in Rome for her love scandals and frantic life, submits to the will of her late patron and embarks on a journey into her past, full of challenges and revelations.
But what she is not prepared for is the clash with the dogma Rafaelo Angelo Baldini, the only grandson and heir of the tycoon, who is determined to drive the adventurer out of his land and property.

Rafaelo will fight with his fingernails and teeth to stay away from her and defeat the forbidden, by honor and blood, attraction he feels for the charming invader.
And where Elvira seemed unmoved in every man’s heart, she feels her world being crushed by the seduction of the selfish Italian. The situation is complicated when his beautiful fiancée appears, who wants to confirm in every way that the charming doge is hers…
The past is revealed, intrigues weave their web and the two rivals sink into the vortex of hatred and love.

(From the back cover of the book)