With this novel, the author, Elisabeth Lovini has received the Recognition of Merit at the "Premio Intercontinentale: Le Nove Muse", May 2021.
Along with being fascinating and shockingly beautiful, at 33, Kiki perfectly embodies the role of a modern "empress," being of quick intelligence, innate creativity. She is tied to the values of life and faithful to the origins of the land. After three years of attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, she stopped living art, which was part of her true nature. She carries within her a pain that weighs on her soul and body, which at times turns into panic attacks.
After graduating from the Interior Design School in Milan, she decides to devote herself to this type of art, as a home stager on the Veronese real estate market. She is unofficially designated leader in her branch of a team, composed of Olivia, a faithful assistant who wants to pursue her dream of moving to London and who trains Gaia, fresh out of graduation to take her place. And then there is Ricky, a construction engineer and future architect, who is going through an unprecedented crisis leading him to make a painful decision and Camilla, a noble bisexual heiress, who feels a deep rooted need to belong to something in order to make sense of her bruised and deprived of life's morals.
Kiki is spirited, bubbly and lively. Furthermore, she is generous and cares about people. Her social life is insanely hectic and studded with a myriad of friendships and travels.
This brings her also into aristocratic environments, which at time is with deceptive veneers.
She loves dressing up and is a fashion victim. She is beautiful and elusive; she catches the looks from others, but she doesn't share them. Because for her, loving a man is akin to the sun that warms you up for a while, but then causes sunburn!
It is precisely on a bright sunny day that she feels that hotness rising up her legs that causes a wild heat inside her. She wrestles with her conscience as her emotions scream.
His gaze burns through her skin. His beaming smile slowly astounds her. The ambit of his melodious and feverishly enveloping voice makes her elated. A symphony of colors explodes in the geometry of light as in a painting!
Genuine and with a rebellious temperament, she grew up pervaded by the feeling of perfect and absolute love that reigns in Verona, precisely the one of Romeo and Juliet.
She tries to lie to herself by raising an imaginary and visibly perceptible wall. Will he be able to climb it with his own backpack full of secrets shouldered from way far back? He'd surprise her by always creating the occasion. He has the elegant manners and is irresistibly captivating and confident as those who are used to being in command. He is a "dynamic rebel" gifted with excellent entrepreneurial resourcefulness and brandishes alarming success at the head of a powerful business empire despite his young age. His ocean eyes are diamonded with a melancholy and mysterious scintillating aspect.
Their fates are intertwined. Their very existence will change forever.
What sacrifices are they both willing to endure in the name of love?
