Awakened in Amalfi

A Second Bloom Romance, Book One

Susan K. Harbourt · Second Bloom

Claudia is forty-eight, newly divorced, and has not drawn anything in years.

She books an art retreat on the Amalfi Coast the week she finds three years of receipts for jewelry that never reached her. The leather sketchbook she splurged on is still blank. Her husband’s parting word was “comfortable.”

Then her first life-drawing model drops his robe, and he turns out to be the chef. Luca Moretti sees the woman behind the easel rather than the one she has spent a decade apologizing for.

Sun-drenched terraces, late-night cooking lessons, and a woman working out whether she is brave enough to be looked at. Book one of the Second Bloom romances.

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