When Ornella vacations in Sicily, she meets Hugh, an archaeologist working on a dig in the beautiful town of Taormina. Hugh convinces Ornella to join him on a trip to the island of Stromboli, where they hike up a live volcano at dusk.
After a passionate night together Ornella, an actress usually focused on her career, suspects she's in love. But after breakfast the next morning, Hugh vanishes.
Ornella is left with Hugh's phone, sunglasses and a sudden end to the love affair she thought she didn't want. Desperate to know if Hugh ran out on her or if he's met with disaster, she wants to search for him. But with an important screen test in Rome and her agent impatiently waiting for her, Ornella faces a dilemma.
Little does she know the danger Hugh is in – and that she is the key to his survival. Phillipa Fioretti is an author who has published two previous novels, The Book of Love and The Fragment of Dreams.
She lives in South Australia with her partner and children. She likes talking with interesting people, being cooked for, travelling – preferably to Italy or Germany, lying in bed reading (fiction and non-fiction), museums and art galleries, old forgotten buildings, old forgotten people and their stories, walking and the company of friends and family.
