the Water and Silence

One forbidden love. One devastating betrayal. A secret the river could never bury.Medieval Italy.Beatrice di Vallepiana was born into a world where a noblewoman's future is decided long before she has a voice in it.Then she falls in love with the one man she can never marry.Gismondo is already promised to another woman. Their love threatens an alliance between powerful families, and when Beatrice discovers that she is carrying his child, the price of their secret becomes terrifyingly clear.What follows is a betrayal designed to separate them for ever.Years later, a wounded stranger is found beside the Aterno River.He has no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why someone might have wanted him dead.But his survival threatens to unravel a past that others have spent years concealing.As buried secrets emerge and old loyalties fracture, lives once torn apart begin to converge. And a mysterious green stone, passed from one generation to the next, holds a connection to a story that was never meant to be told.Some betrayals destroy a life. Others shape generations.The Water and the Silence is an atmospheric historical novel of forbidden love, betrayal, family secrets and the enduring power of memory, set against the evocative landscape of medieval Abruzzo.For readers who love emotionally rich historical fiction, slow-burning romance, family sagas and mysteries rooted in the past.