An old friend calls Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart to his famous Italian restaurant to enlist their help. His aunt is being evicted from her home in the Tuscan hills by a powerful corporation claiming they own the deeds
even though she can produce her own set of deeds to her land. Catherine and Liam’s only clue is a bound handwritten manuscript
entirely in German
and hidden in its pages is a story long-forgotten… Ada Baumgarten was born in Berlin in 1918
at the end of the war. The daughter of an accomplished first-chair violinist in the prestigious Berlin Philharmonic
and herself a violin prodigy
Ada’s life was full of the rich culture of Berlin’s interwar society. She formed a deep attachment to her childhood friend Kurt
but they were torn apart by the growing unrest as her Jewish family came under suspicion. As the tides of history turned
it was her extraordinary talent that would carry her through an unraveling society turned to war
and make her a target even as it saved her
allowing her to move to Bologna―though Italy was not the haven her family had hoped
and further heartache awaited. What became of Ada? How is she connected to the conflicting land deeds of a small Italian villa? As they dig through the layers of lies
corruption
and human evil
Catherine and Liam uncover an unfinished story of heart
redemption
and hope―the ending of which is yet to be written.