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She came to restore a five-hundred-year-old fresco.
She did not expect the man behind the closed doors.
Dr. Ama Asante is one of the finest art conservators of her generation. When a prestigious restoration commission brings her to Villa Fontecalvo in the hills of Tuscany, she expects three months of careful, solitary work - not Luca Fontecalvo, the brooding architect who owns the villa and has kept every shutter closed against the light for four years.
The fresco Ama has come to restore is extraordinary. But the deeper she looks, the more she finds: a bundle of five-hundred-year-old love letters hidden in an olive-wood box, two hands painted in secret in the lowest register of the chapel wall, and the story of a painter who put everything he could not say into the walls of the house he loved.
As Ama uncovers the buried truth of the fresco, she and Luca begin an achingly slow, irresistible fall toward each other - two people who have built their lives around careful attention, finally paying it to each other.
But Ama's contract has an end date. And the life she built in Oxford is waiting.
Some things, once restored, cannot be returned to what they were.
UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN, I BURN is a slow-burn literary romance set against the golden hills of Tuscany - for readers who believe that the most beautiful things are always the ones worth looking at twice.
Perfect for fans of The Midnight Library, Daisy Jones & The Six, and Normal People.