Illustrated map of Lago di Fiore, the fictional Italian lake at the heart of the Echoes of the Lake series by Susie Sharp
THE WORLD OF THE SERIES

Welcome to
Lago di Fiore

The fictional Italian lake at the heart of the Echoes of the Lake series. Its villages, its villas, its secrets — drawn from real memory.

"For twelve years, I looked out over a valley much like this one. Villa Anna sits where my own house stood — at the top of the hill, overlooking everything. That view is where this entire series was born." 

I didn't plan to write a series. But the landscape never left me. When I began writing Time For Tuscany, the lake appeared almost on its own. By the time I started Summer At The Palazzo, I knew this was going to be a world with its own geography, its own villages, its own history.

Villa Anna

Hilltop villa overlooking the lake

Book 1

Palazzo della Riva

Grand lakeside palazzo

Book 2

 Casa di Monteluce

Secluded hillside estate

Book 3

Bellacampo

Lakeside village among the vines

Book 4

ECHOES OF THE LAKE

Meet the books

Four women. Four turning points. One Italian lake that changes everything — from sun-warmed villas to lakeside palazzos, autumn hillsides, winter villages and spring streets full of flowers.

ECHO ONE · AVAILABLE NOW

Time For Tuscany

Sara went to Tuscany to save her marriage. She didn’t expect to rediscover herself.

Tuscany sunshine Grief & healing Marriage in crisis Second chances

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ECHO TWO · COMING MAY 2027

Summer At The Palazzo

One inheritance. One lakeside palazzo. One woman discovering that beginning again doesn’t mean leaving love behind.

Lakeside palazzo Family secrets Sisterhood Widowhood

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ECHO THREE · FUTURE STORY

Casa di Monteluce

An autumn farmhouse among the chestnut trees, where one woman faces old family wounds, unexpected second chances, and the quiet pull of beginning again.

Autumn hillsides Chestnut harvest Second chances

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ECHO FOUR · FUTURE STORY

Bellacampo

A winter town on the water’s edge, where Christmas lights shimmer across the lake and one woman begins to wonder whether the life she fought to keep is still the life she wants.

Winter by the lake Christmas lights Later-life courage

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ANOTHER PLACE BY THE LAKE

San Fiorello

A flower-filled town halfway up the mountain, where spring spills through the streets and the lake glimmers below — a place for hope, fresh starts and stories still waiting to bloom.

Spring flowers Hope Fresh starts Mountain views

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 HOW TO READ THE SERIES

Any order.
Any time.

Each novel is fully self-contained with its own complete story, characters, and resolution. Reading in order from Book 1 adds a richer layer — but it is never required. Start wherever calls to you

THREADS THROUGH EVERY ECHO

Women over 40

Italy

Second chances

Grief & healing

Hidden secrets

Midlife reinvention

Love after loss

Landscape as character

The courage to begin again

Hopeful endings

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Jojo Moyes
Kerry Fisher
Victoria Hislop
Liz Fenwick
Santa Montefiore

Emotionally rich women's fiction with a strong sense of place, real women at their centre, and endings that leave you quietly hopeful.

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Susie  Sharp

Writing emotionally layered women's fiction for midlife women. Based in Brecon, Wales.

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