Lost in Italy

Tessa Bignel is 17 and has always wanted to connect with her Italian side, having taken her mother's last name and growing up in New Zealand she had always felt like something was missing. Having never met her father, all she knew was that he was an Italian man with a good name, and to be seen with someone like the likes of her mother would bring great shame to his family. Catching the next flight to Italy and stuck next to a boy she just met, who makes her heart pound a bit faster and her skin to feel a bit hotter, he is her best friend and with the only thing that's linking Tessa to her father, a silver pendant.