EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE: A Novel of Obsession and Restoration

He built a sanctuary to keep the world out. She came to tear down its walls-one layer of plaster at a time. Giuliano Valenti has spent three years perfecting Palazzo Miramare, turning the ancient Italian estate into a fortress of quiet architecture and invisible surveillance. From his hidden studio above the vaulted hall, six monitors track every move made within its stone walls. Control isn't just his profession-it is his armor. Until Chiara Moretti arrives. A brilliant art restorer with a cold, methodical eye and secrets of her own, Chiara hasn't come to Ravello merely to clean the damaged 16th-century Annunciation fresco. She carries her father's disgraced legacy in her pocket and a scalpel trained to find the precise seam where truth was painted over. As Chiara works the scaffold under Giuliano's watchful gaze, a dangerous game of observation and deception unfolds high above the Tyrrhenian Sea. But when her restoration uncovers a concealed cavity in the load-bearing masonry, both Giuliano and Chiara are forced to confront a decades-old crime buried beneath the stone-and a betrayal that reaches to the highest ranks of the Italian Heritage Board. Rich with atmospheric tension, technical restoration detail, and psychological suspense, EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE explores the fragile threshold between watching and loving, and the devastating cost of finally letting a wall fall.