THE HOUSE BY THE SEA by Santa Montefiore

Ten-year-old Floriana is captivated by the beauty of the magnificent Tuscan villa just outside her small village and dreams of living there someday. Then one hot afternoon, Dante, the son of the villa's owner, invites her inside and from that moment on Floriana knows that her destiny is there, with him.

Decades later and hundreds of miles away, a beautiful old country house hotel on England's Devon coast has fallen on hard times. Its owner, Marina, hires an artist in residence to stay the summer and teach the guests how to paint. The man she finds is charismatic and wise and begins to pacify the discord in her family and transform  the fortunes of the hotel. However, it soon becomes clear that he is not who he seems...

Soft cover, fair condition. The cover shows some signs of wear. Slight foxing. Rubber stamp on the front page.