Lucia: Where You Are

Lucia: Where You Are is a story of undermined love searching for a lasting peace and home within the hearts and lives of a young couple separated by three hundred years of Italian traditions and an ocean of differences. Rick is a young man from the Outer Banks of North Carolina who falls passionately in love with a Tuscan woman of undeniable class and ability attending college in America escaping the ravages of Italian fascism. Their love takes a life of its own, born from warm Carolina skies, a cool Atlantic shore marked and guided by Bodie Lighthouse. It results in a search for Lucia through the battle-crowded skies over Germany in 1944, to the vine-covered hills of Tuscany and the discovery of a little girl who represents life’s innocence and frailty. It is a novel that will pull at the reader’s heart to want to read on and hope that a love found will be the prize won.