Beneath the Cypress Moon

<p><strong>A Forbidden Love. A War-Torn Italy. A Secret That Could Change Everything.</strong></p><p>Sicily 1943. The war has reached the shores of Italy and Livia Rossi's world is crumbling. Once the privileged daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner she now watches as her homeland is torn apart by Fascist rule and the looming shadow of German occupation. The villa that once promised safety has become a prison of silence where resistance is whispered and loyalty can be deadly.</p><p>One fateful night in the moonlit cypress grove near her family's estate Livia discovers a wounded man collapsed beneath the trees. He is <strong>Angelo Moretti</strong> a resistance fighter marked for execution bleeding from a gunshot wound. Against every instinct of self-preservation Livia makes a choice that will alter the course of her life-<strong>she decides to save him.</strong></p><p>As she hides him within the walls of Villa della Rosa Livia is thrust into a dangerous world of <strong>secrets betrayal and forbidden love</strong>. Her childhood friend Marcello Bonetti now a loyal Fascist officer begins to suspect her of hiding something-or someone. As the German forces tighten their grip on Sicily Livia and Angelo are caught in a perilous dance between desire and destruction where a single misstep could mean death.</p><p><strong>How far will she go to protect a man who has stolen her heart? And will love be enough to survive a war that threatens to consume them both?</strong></p><p><strong>Decades Later A Secret Waiting to Be Uncovered...</strong></p><p>Present-day Sicily. <strong>Elena Marconi</strong> never knew the truth about her grandmother Livia's past. Growing up she only heard fragments-stories of a war a great love and a loss too painful to speak of. When a series of old letters are discovered in a rusted tin box beneath the cypress trees Elena stumbles upon a name she has never heard before.</p><p><em>My dearest Angelo...</em></p><p>The words unravel everything she thought she knew about her family. If Livia was married to her grandfather Marcello then who was Angelo? And why was his name never spoken?</p><p>Determined to uncover the truth Elena embarks on a journey that will take her through the ruins of war-torn Sicily where the echoes of the past are waiting to be heard. With the help of <strong>Nico Romano</strong> a historian with his own connection to the resistance Elena pieces together a love story that defied the odds-but was ultimately lost to history.</p><p><strong>Some secrets were meant to stay buried. Others demand to be set free.</strong></p>