Summer At The Palazzo

Susie Sharp

<------ THE SERIES SUMMER AT THE PALAZZO BOOK TWO OF FOUR ECHOES OF THE LAKE

ECHOES OF THE LAKE · BOOK TWO
· GEORGIA'S STORY ARRIVES MAY 2027

Summer At
The Palazzo

A NOVEL BY SUSIE SHARP

"She arrived intending to let go.
She didn't expect the palazzo to hold on so tight."

BE FIRST hrough the palazzo doors

START WITH TIME FOR TUSCANY

From the author of Time For Tuscany · Joan Hessayon Award contender 2026

---------- THE STORY

Some Inheritances are more than property

Georgia Rayner has spent eighteen months avoiding home, decisions, and a future she never asked for.

When an Italian inheritance pulls her back to the palazzo she helped restore with her late husband, Georgia intends to do what everyone expects: settle the paperwork, let go of the past, and leave.

But Palazzo della Riva isn't finished with her.

Inside its sunlit rooms are memories she's tried not to touch, a betrayal too close to home, and the faintest possibility that life after loss might still hold beauty, purpose — and love.

This book is for you if…

You love stories about women rebuilding their lives in midlife.

You love Italian sunshine, family pressure, and difficult choices.

You believe grief can sit beside hope.

You want a story that says it's never too late to begin again.

You love slow-burn romance with emotional depth, quiet longing, and a love that has to be earned.

Summer At The Palazzo is a story about what we hold on to, what we owe the people we've lost, and the moment a woman finally decides what comes next.

Interior of an Italian palazzo stairway with dramatic overhead lighting, inspiration for Summer At The Palazzo by Susie Sharp

------ WHERE THE STORY TAKES PLACE

A LAKESIDE palazzo
FULL OF UNFINISHED DREAMS

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A nine-bedroom palazzo in the Tuscan hills, restored over a decade by a man who loved beautiful things. Travertine walls. An iron staircase. A south-facing window that throws a bar of light across the entrance hall at a particular hour of the morning.

Georgia knows this light.

She and her husband helped design this room. Coming back to it alone is the hardest thing she has ever done — and the beginning of the bravest.

The palazzo sits on the shore of Lago di Fiore — the fictional lake at the heart of the Echoes of the Lake series, drawn from Susie's own years living in Tuscany.

----- THE CHARACTERS

The people at the heart of it

Georgia

The widow afraid to want tomorrow.

Georgia has spent eighteen months surviving a life she never wanted.

Kate

The sister holding everyone else together.

Practical, capable Kate knows what has to be done. But the inheritance stirs up more than paperwork, and Kate may not be as in control as she thought.

Ben

The builder who makes safe feel like temptation.

Ben has built a steady life in a familiar place. But beneath the calm, there is a hunger for life.

------- DON'T MISS IT

BE FIRST THROUGH

THE PALAZZO DOORS

Summer At The Palazzo arrives in May 2027.

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