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Student Elizabeth Staveley is conducting research on tales from the late 16th century in the library at Oxford University, when she suddenly comes across a four-hundred-year-old manuscript inserted into a book.
The novel follows the declining Roman bourgeois family of Ardengo over the course of several days: widow Mariagrazia, lover Leo, son Michele, and daughter Carla – all trapped in apathy, lies, sexual manipulation, and moral indifference.
The battle of love has begun, both sides know how much is at stake, but if they fail to prevent unexpected threats to Francesca's life, they may never know who will win this war...
Can the love that survived death withstand the war between angels, vampires and lycans?
In Florence 1925–1926, in the poor Via del Corno, the residents live in love, poverty and fear. The arrival of fascism destroys the community: lovers fight, some die from violence, but popular solidarity survives.
In pre-war Prague, the dreams of two young lovers are shattered in the whirlwind of Nazi occupation. Decades later and thousands of miles away, in New York, the eyes of two strangers will meet in a single second - a second of inevitable recognition...