Lake Como

Hallie Elliot is building a career as an interior designer at a respected San Francisco firm, and she is about to marry Peter, a talented journalist. Her world tilts when she walks in on Peter and her employer together, and the betrayal leaves her questioning everything she thought was secure. She travels to Lake Como to stay with her half-sister, Portia Tesoro, a member of an old Italian family who is living through a very public split from her unfaithful husband. At the Tesoro villa, Hallie grows enchanted with the lake and accepts a commission to design the waterfront home of a private American tech billionaire. The estate's caretaker, Angus, is kind and charming, though Hallie senses something troubling in his past. Just as she begins to feel at home in Italy, a discovery about her own family forces her to rethink who she is and whether her new life there can last. The novel explores sisterhood, family ties, professional ambition, and the textures of daily life in northern Italy.