Lake Como: A Novel - Softcover

Hughes, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250017734 ISBN 13: 9781250017734

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2013

Synopsis

Hallie Elliot has a perfect life. She is an up-and-coming interior designer in one of San Francisco's most sought after firms, and has just recently become engaged to Peter, a brilliant young journalist. But when she stumbles upon Peter and her boss in what seems to be a compromising position, her trust in her perfect life is shaken.
So Hallie escapes to Lake Como, Italy to spend time with her half-sister, Portia Tesoro, an Italian blueblood dealing with the scandal of a public estrangement from her cheating husband. While staying in the Tesoro villa, Hallie falls in love with the splendor and beauty of Lake Como, and finds work designing the lakeside estate of a reclusive American tech mogul. The caretaker of this beautiful estate is a handsome man named Angus, and Hallie finds herself drawn to his charm and kindness, despite hints of a dark secret in his past.
But just as Hallie is beginning to find her footing on Italian soil, she uncovers a family secret that upends all the truths she's believed about herself, and calls into question the new life she's built in Lake Como.
Sisterhood, family, career, and sumptuous descriptions of Italian life fill the pages of this newest offering by Anita Hughes. Lake Como is a heartbreaking and heartwarming story of love, self-discovery, and the quest for truth.

Love, sisterhood, and sumptuous descriptions of la dolce vita fill the pages of Anita Hughes' Lake Como, a heartwarming story of romance, self-discovery, and the quest for truth.

About this title

About the Author

ANITA HUGHES is the author of Rome in Love (adapted into a Hallmark movie in 2019), and Christmas in Vermont (adapted into a Lifetime movie in 2019). She is also the author of Market Street, Lake Como, Santorini Sunsets, Christmas in Paris, Monarch Beach, and other titles. She attended UC Berkeley's Masters in Creative Writing Program, and lives in Dana Point, California.

Reviews

Working under one of the most desired interior designers in San Francisco while dating one of the few chivalrous men left on the planet, Hallie Elliot seems to have it all. Until she finds her long-term boyfriend, Peter, and her overpowering boss, Kendra, in a rather strange, too-close-for-comfort situation. Peter insists that nothing happened and proposes to Hallie. Instead of giving him an answer, she decides to try to figure things out while heading to Lake Como, where she’ll spend August visiting her half sister who is also having love difficulties. While there, Hallie follows a path to self-discovery, seeks a reconnection with her sister, and learns a hidden family secret, all while meeting a mysterious man named Angus who sets her up with a design project she just can’t refuse. Hughes (Market Street, 2013) delivers another fun, place-based work of women’s fiction, this time portraying a likable character hungry for answers to life’s questions in beautiful Lake Como, home to delectable food and men. --Carissa Chesanek

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250017734
• ISBN 13: 9781250017734
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288