A secret in Tuscany / Alan Hlad.
Italy, 1943: With war blazing through Europe, nowhere is entirely safe--not even the remote hills of the Tuscan countryside. It's here that Italian partisans, including thousands of women, risk their lives to provide Jewish refugees with an escape route to Switzerland. And it's here, too, that Gianna Conti travels to join the Italian Resistance in the wake of her brother Matteo's death at the hands of German soldiers. Her father has been hiding Jewish refugees on their family's vineyard in Chianti, but now Gianna is bringing the fight directly to the enemy. While delivering weapons and intelligence for partisans, Gianna meets Tazio Napoli, an American working undercover for the Office of Strategic Services. Despite the growing odds of discovery, Gianna and Tazio conduct high-risk missions to sabotage German operations. With the aid of Tazio's OSS codebook, they encrypt secret messages to each other while apart, hiding them at a dead drop in an abandoned mine. But as the Allies steadily fight their way toward Florence, occupying German forces grow more desperate, leading to a shocking, unthinkable act of vengeance. And Gianna's fate will rest upon her cunning, her resilience, and her willingness to keep hope alive, even through the decades that follow.
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- ISBN: 9781496745583 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 356 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Kensington trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : John Scognamiglio Books/Kensington Publishing Corp., 2025.
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| General Note: | Includes reading group guide. |
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| Genre: | Historical fiction. Spy fiction. War fiction. Novels. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Hlad | 31681010441582 | FICTIONPBK | Checked out | 12/05/2025 |
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In 1943 Tuscany, Gianna Conti joins the Italian Resistance after her brotherâs death, working with undercover American Tazio Napoli to fight German forces, protect refugees, and risk everything for love, freedom, and the secret messages that bind them across time. Original. - Random House, Inc.
The Tuscan Child meets Beneath a Scarlet Sky in this bittersweet tale of wartime heroism, love, and redemption, spanning two generations and encompassing a real-life mystery, from the author of The Long Flight Home and Churchillâs Secret Messenger.
Italy, 1943: With war blazing through Europe, nowhere is entirely safeânot even the remote hills of the Tuscan countryside. Itâs here that Italian partisans, including thousands of women, risk their lives to provide Jewish refugees with an escape route to Switzerland. And itâs here, too, that Gianna Conti travels to join the Italian Resistance in the wake of her brother Matteoâs death at the hands of German soldiers. Her father has been hiding Jewish refugees on their familyâs vineyard in Chianti, but now Gianna is bringing the fight directly to the enemy.
While delivering weapons and intelligence for partisans, Gianna meets Tazio Napoli, an American working undercover for the Office of Strategic Services. Despite the growing odds of discovery, Gianna and Tazio conduct high-risk missions to sabotage German operations. With the aid of Tazioâs OSS codebook, they encrypt secret messages to each other while apart, hiding them at a dead drop in an abandoned mine.
But as the Allies steadily fight their way toward Florence, occupying German forces grow more desperate, leading to a shocking, unthinkable act of vengeance. And Giannaâs fate will rest upon her cunning, her resilience, and her willingness to keep hope alive, even through the decades that follow . . .