Heiress of Halcyon House

Halcyon House has forty-one rooms, four remaining staff, and one door Ines Marchetti was explicitly told not to open. Of course she opened it. Ines took the live-in position because she needed the money. She did not take it to find her employer's family secrets in a ledger in a locked room, but that is what she found, and the secret has a name, and the name is Rafaele Varelli's. He was supposed to stay in Milan. He arrives instead, in a storm, to sign the papers that will turn the house he grew up in into a hotel. What he finds is a woman in the kitchen with a candle and his grandmother's limoncello, who already knows the thing he has spent twenty years not saying out loud. The sale closes in two weeks. The truth takes less time than that.