Starling Darling

<p><strong>In this striking and suspenseful story of love mothers and memory <em>Starling</em> <em>Darling</em> is Lucia's journey to reclaim what's hers and let go of what's not. Can she find a way toward an unwritten future by forgiving her mother without abandoning herself? </strong></p><p></p><p><em>I never wanted to be a mother.</em></p><p> </p><p>Lucia Starling's mother says the unforgivable. Five years later Lucia must contend with the past when her estranged mother Rowan a prominent museum curator in New York City has died. After being bequeathed Rowan's 18th-century jade necklace with a handwritten letter Lucia is desperate to escape her grief by fleeing to Italy.</p><p> </p><p>What begins as a journey of heartache becomes a logistical nightmare. While in Rome worlds collide during a tense encounter between Lucia and two strangers Oliver Ström and Victor Hedlund. The result afterward is catastrophic; her hotel room is burglarized-and with it her passport alongside Rowan's necklace.</p><p> </p><p>As Lucia quickly devises a plan to find both before they're lost on the black market forever she runs into Oliver in the last place she'd ever expect. Forming a tenuous alliance they voyage on a daring mission to catch the culprit soon learning that Lucia's stolen necklace is only the beginning.</p>