Sometimes one summer changes everything.

Emma Collins has spent four years being extremely good at a job in London, and on a wet Thursday in June she is offered the promotion she has worked for. That same week she inherits a house in Tuscany she has never seen, from a family she barely knew she had.

She flies out for ten days to sell it. She has a system: photograph every room, value, keep, dispose, decide later. She does not intend to open a single box she does not have to.

Lorenzo Bellini has the vineyard on the other side of the wall, and he is quietly certain that the house should not be sold to the first person with a chequebook. He knows what the last owner was building there. He knows why the well matters. And he has no intention of explaining any of it to an Englishwoman with a spreadsheet and a return flight.

But the ten days become three weeks, the boxes get opened, and Emma begins to find things in that house that make the offer waiting for her in London look like somebody else's life.

A slow-burn second-chance romance about inheritance, belonging, and the difference between the life you are good at and the life you want.