Undercover Love Story: A Novel

In England, Kristjana, a nurse, flees the twenty-first-century London to avoid making a decision about her future. While attending to a dying man in a Jerusalem hospital, she escapes into another woman's past and discovers the courage to embrace her own destiny. Through his vivid storytelling, Kristjana's cancer patient, Leo Hampton, recounts his mother's life - her upbringing in colonial Malta, her education in Edwardian England, and her service as a volunteer nurse during World War I.

Captivated by the story of Liljana Hampton, Kristjana is pulled into the agonies and ecstasies of a previous generation, which almost seem more real to her than those of her own life. Through her vicarious experience of another woman's personal history, Kristjana discovers the secret of fearlessly embracing her future.

Award-winning author Fiorella De Maria seamlessly weaves back and forth between the past and the future with her passionate and colorful prose. She realistically brings to life the cobbled streets of Old World Malta, the halls of an English boarding school, and the trenches of the Great War as she explores the age-old quest for some sense of security in a dangerous and uncertain world.

In a Jerusalem hospital, Kristjana, a nurse in England, attends to a dying man and is captivated by the story he recounts of his mother's life. Liljana Hampton's upbringing in colonial Malta, her education in Edwardian England, and her service as a volunteer nurse during World War I, pull Kristjana into the agonies and ecstasies of a previous generation, which almost seem more real to her than those of her own life.

Fleeing the twenty-first-century London to avoid making a decision about her future, Kristjana discovers the courage to embrace her own destiny through her vicarious experience of Liljana's personal history. Fiorella De Maria's award-winning novel seamlessly weaves back and forth between the past and the future, realistically bringing to life the cobbled streets of Old World Malta, the halls of an English boarding school, and the trenches of the Great War, as she explores the age-old quest for some sense of security in a dangerous and uncertain world.

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