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Two impossible love stories are fatefully connected by one artistic legacy in a stunning debut that leaps between the mysteries of lateRenaissance Venice and the dramas of presentday America

Enchanting from the first pageSarah JioNew York Timesbestselling author ofAll the Flowers in Paris

In the wake of her fathers death Rose Newlin finds solace in her work as a book restorer Then one rainy Connecticut afternoon a struggling painter appears at her door William Lomazzo brings with him a sixteenthcentury treatise on art which Rose quickly identifies as a palimpsest a document written over a hidden diary that had purposely been scraped away Yet the restoration sparks an unforeseen challenge when Williama married manand Rose experience an instant unspoken attraction

Five centuries earlier Renaissanceera Venetians find themselves at the mercy of an encroaching Ottoman fleet preparing for a bloody war Giovanni Lomazzo a portrait artist grappling with tragedy discovers that his vision is fading with each passing day Facing the possibility of a completely dark world Gio begins to document his every encounter including what may be his final artistic feat a commission to paint the enchanting courtesan of one of Venices most powerful military commanders Soon however Gio finds himself enraptured by a magnificent forbidden love

Spellbound by Gios revelations Rose and William are soon forced to confront the reality of their own mystifying connection

A richly detailed pageturner shadowed by one of historys darkest times The Lost Diary of Venice weaves a heartbreakingly vivid portrait of two vastly different worldsand two tales of entrancing unrelenting love