THE HOUSE BY THE SEA BY SANTA MONTEFIORE IN SOUTH AFRICA

 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. It's 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 transforms the fortunes of the hotel.  However, it soon becomes clear that he in not who he seems... Soft cover, fairly good condition. The book shows some signs of wear.  500 pages.