Is Julia Darbor just imagining threats to her life when she arrives in Italy to attend the funeral of her sister, Elizabeth? On an Etruscan archeological dig, Elizabeth had been staying in the family castle when she had a fatal car crash. Was it an accident? Julia begins to have strong doubts as she realizes that she, too, is in danger Why did her father, as a young man, go to America to never return to claim his inheritance? Why did her Aunt Renata, the sick, aging beauty, tell Julia to leave and why was Contessa Filippa, her Grandmother, wanting her to stay? How was it that American...

Take a famous, but stressed, woman--abstract painter from Washington DC; an infatuated sculptor from NY with a beautiful, not so dumb, model. Add a stingy, but elegant professor; a gallery owner with an adolescent daughter and an alcoholic ex-wife and put all these Americans in a small town one summer in Sicily. Not forgetting either: a bureaucrat from Rome; a crack Sicilian photographer; an Italian sculptor, his workshop and his family; helpful neighbors and even an English racetrack driver and four Sicilian students on vacation with time on their hands---and there you have the cast of this...

THOSE IRISH EYES After the death of her husband in Paris, Moira, born in Boston, inherits her Grandfather's farm in Ireland. She takes her mother's ashes back with her as she moves to the old home and hopes to discover her father's identity. Could he be Father John, the local priest? Moira soon discovers that there is a dark side to the idyllic life by the Shannon River. Is a talented painter that she finds living in her farmhouse the murderer of Laetitia, a beautiful Corsican and is Laetitia's brother, Philippe, the handsome, trustworthy man that he appears to be? Was it thieving Sally Sue's...