Heart and Soul (Paperback or Softback)

Once you've known the rapture of love and have lost it, can you ever give yourself again? She had everything the world could offer. She was young, talented, in love with the greatest composer in Europe -and he loved her as much as she loved him. She was his muse, his inspiration, but his love was laced with possessiveness. His fatal flaw was his fear that he couldn't create if he didn't keep her always at his side. In a burst of independence that results in tragedy, Jean-Pierre is gone. Melissa must bear the guilt of her actions, and face the rest of her life alone. Love finds a way of trespassing onto her seclusion, but before Melissa can accept this unexpected second chance at love, she must reconcile her past with her future. Poignantly touching, as only young love can be.

Lynn Rodolico was born in 1953 in Santa Monica, California, and grew up in the coastal town of Pacific Palisades. Her earliest, happiest memories come from inventing stories beneath the large fruit trees in her backyard, and later, when she was old enough to roam, the dramatic pounding of the Pacific Ocean below the town's cliffs.

Writing had always been a favourite pastime but it wasn't until she left her job as Administrator of Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts that she started to write full time. She gave herself one year in which to succeed or fail as a writer. To perfect her skills, first in the Berkshires and later in New York City, she wrote commercial novels in the Romance genre under a series of pseudonyms. Her success was quick and exceptional. Her first published novel, PASSION'S FLIGHT sold 350,000 copies and was translated into seven languages. Her second novel, HEART & SOUL, proved a greater success, both commercially and literary, winning the Book of the Month Award in France. OPENING BID was another best seller romance and was translated into eleven languages. INTIMATES moved out of the romance category, allowing for real character development, but its circulation was thwarted when her editor changed publishing houses and the book remained orphaned in the warehouse.

In 1985 Lynn moved to Italy for a year to finish a novel. On her first day in Florence she met Antonino Rodolico, the man who would transform her life from a solitary search to a unified communion. TWO SEAS is a fictionalized memoir of their life on an olive farm in the Tuscan hills and their unexpected love affair with the Island of Sicily.

INTIMATES and HEART & SOUL have recently been reissued by Eccolo Editions. Lynn is currently at work on a new novel, SMALL CHANGE.