The Music Box: Isabella della Torre was once the voice of Porto di Mare?until scandal silenced her.
Years later, she returns to a town that remembers too much and forgives too little. But when a forgotten melody plays from a music box tucked inside her family villa, and a masked figure dares her to sing again, Isabella must choose between silence and truth.
From chapel ruins to lemon groves, from whispered verses to piazza waltzes, The Music Box is a lyrical novelette of exile and return, of
love reclaimed and memory revived. A story for anyone who's ever lost their voice?and found it again in the quiet.
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Time To Breathe
Acknowledgement:
This book was inspired by three songs my husband wrote. I remember sitting with him one day, a quiet morning with coffee, when he turned to me and said, "I think these songs might be more than just music." He didn't know it then, but in that simple statement, he had already started the story.
Steve did in fact start writing the story.
His melodies and lyrics weren't just tunes; the were poetic lyrics.
A book is never the work of one person alone. Therefore to my darling Steve, thank you for beginning this story and having the faith in me to see it through to the end of what I call our book!
Finally, to you, the reader, thank you for picking up this book. I hope within these pages you find a story that resonates and perhaps, just for a moment, a quiet place to breathe.