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Amara Johnson
Focused, disciplined, and quietly brilliant, Amara Johnson is an American nursing student in Italy determined to keep her life on schedule. She believes care is as critical as cure, and her intelligence shows in the way she centers patients where others see data. Guarded with her heart and certain she won't stay, Amara treats love like a distraction she can't afford-until it challenges her in a language she can't ignore.
Dr. Lorenzo De Luca
Reserved, incisive, and effortlessly authoritative, Lorenzo De Luca is a surgical research fellow whose precision leaves little room for uncertainty-or emotion. He values efficiency, restraint, and control, both in his work and his life. But when his carefully ordered world collides with Amara's unwavering compassion, he finds himself questioning everything he thought he understood about healing-and attachment.