Crosswinds at Campo Carcasso

Anita F. Venezia debuts with a compelling novel Crosswinds at Campo Carcasso - A Journey of a Thousand Tales; a riveting journey of five protagonists. Charlotte, a California art history graduate is beset with locating the ancestral home - detours when she falls prey to Clarence, an enigmatic stranger - obsessing about finding him leads her on a path to greed, illicit antiquities trading and murder. An older archaeologist invites her to excavate in Rome, thus igniting a game of intellectual volleys and sensual desire in Pompeii and Capri where her soubriquet Carlotta exposes her alter ego's erotic side. In Venice they encounter Stefano, an antiquities trader, and fake-maker Massimo who entrap the lovers in a vise of mystery against exhilarating Italian backdrops and cities of the dead. A complex saga of corruption frames the peripatetic conmen enticing them into a compelling web. Enter Giancarlo who desires Carlotta more than tomb treasures; resulting in colliding intellectual ideals and a quest for the Etruscan prize on Campo Carcasso.