#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical
fiction fueled by shocking true events the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart
of Rome...in the creeping shadow of fascism.What war destroys only love can heal.Elisabetta
Marco and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a
feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist Marco the brash and athletic son in a family
of professional cyclists and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy kind-hearted and thoughtful
the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love with both Sandro and Marco
hoping to win Elisabetta's heart. But in the autumn of 1937 all of that begins to change as
Mussolini asserts his power aligning Italy's Fascists with Hitler's Nazis and altering the
very laws that govern Rome. In time everything that the three hold dear--their families their
homes and their connection to one another--is tested in ways they never could have imagined.As
anti-Semitism takes legal root and World War II erupts the threesome realizes that Mussolini
was only the beginning. The Nazis invade Rome and with their occupation come new atrocities
against the city's Jews culminating in a final horrific betrayal. Against this backdrop the
intertwined fates of Elisabetta Marco Sandro and their families will be decided in a
heartbreaking story of both the best and the worst that the world has to offer.Unfolding over
decades Eternal is a tale of loyalty and loss family and food love and war--all set in one
of the world's most beautiful cities at its darkest moment. This moving novel will be forever
etched in the hearts and minds of readers.
