Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart have been tasked with proving a woman is the rightful owner of her home in Tuscany, even as a greedy corporation states they are the rightful owners and intend to take possession. Their search for answers takes them back 100 years to the story of Ada Baumgarten, a young woman of privilege and culture at the end of the Great War, but it’s her talent as a musician that will save her as the forces of Adolph Hitler and the Third Reich rise over Germany. Fleeing to Italy becomes the only solution that will save Ada and her family . But what does she have to do with their current assignment and the deed to the Italian property now being questioned?

As time marches on and their are fewer and fewer survivors of World War II, their stories, real and fictional become all the more important. Balson takes readers on a journey through one the darkest times of human history

I have been a fan of Ronald Balson since I read his first book "Saving Sophie" and he just keeps on getting better. This book captured my attention from the very beginning, and with its combination of mystery and history was impossible to put down. Liam and Catherine are asked by their friend Tony to help his aunt Gabi in Tuscany who is being evicted from her longtime home and vineyard. Gabi has what she believes to be a valid deed to the property but she is being sued by a large corporation who is presenting what they believe to be the valid deed. When trying to research the history of the place they find the relevant documents missing, and the registry clerk dead. Gabi can't talk about the past but is vehement in trying to protect "Ada's vines". She sends Catherine a journal written by Ada Baumgarten, a Jewish violinist who fled to Italy during the Holocaust. Catherine and Liam must pull together all the different strings that make up this conundrum to help Gabi retain her home. Both the present day story and the historical one are thoroughly engrossing and I was riveted to the book from the first page to the very end.

This is one of the many stories that needs to be remembered, needs to be told, and definitely needs to be heard