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Through the New York Times best-selling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Women comes a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge - occur war-ravaged Tuscany. It is 1943: Saved in the idyllic hillsides south of Florence, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, assume that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe. Eighteen-year-old Cristina spends her times swimming in the pool, playing with her young niece and nephew, and wandering aimlessly amid the estate's landscapes and olive groves. However when two troops, a German and an Italian, arrive at the villa requesting to see a historical Etruscan burial site, the Rosatis' bucolic tranquility is shattered. A young German lieutenant begins to court docket Cristina, the Nazis descend after the estate requiring hospitality, and that which was once their sanctuary becomes their jail. In 1955 Serafina Bettini, an investigator with the Florence law enforcement officials office, has her own demons. A beautiful girl, Serafina carefully hides her marks along with her haunting memory of the war. But when she actually is given to a gruesome new circumstance - a serial killer targeting the Rosatis, murdering the remnants of the family one-by-one in cold blood vessels - Serafina detects herself digging into a recent that involves both subjects and her own tragic background. Establish against an exquisitely rendered Italian countryside, The Light in the Ruins unveils a amazing history of moral paradox, human frailty, and the secret ways of the heart.
