Publisher's Synopsis
It is July, a week before Charles and Diana's Royal Wedding, and seventeen-year-old Lara's father, a man she barely knows, invites her to accompany him on a holiday to Italy. There, in Tuscany her evenings are spent listening to her father and his old friend Caroline exchanging sardonic banter about a past Lara knows nothing about. As Lara's skin turns golden, she begins to relax. One night she is taken for dinner at the Willoughbys', their neighbours, and is drawn to the only son of the family, who seems to be interested in her too. But the Willoughbys are a family rife with illicit alliances and vendettas, and the more embroiled Lara becomes with them, the more consumed she is with doubt, curiosity and dread.
