Secrets under the Olive Tree

🌿 Secrets Under The Olive Tree 🌿

🖋️ A romantic mystery set in the hills of Italy by [Your names goes here]

📍 Setting: Southern Italy – Amalfi Coast & an ancient olive grove
💔 Genre: Romantic Suspense / Expat Love Story
🍷 Themes: Escape • Identity • Second Lives • The Cost of Secrets

🚤 The Meeting

When Clara Evans, a London art conservator on sabbatical, impulsively books a boat trip along the Amalfi Coast, she hopes only to sketch, swim, and finally forget. But when she meets Leo Martin, a rugged, reserved travel writer from New Zealand, everything shifts. Under sun-drenched cliffs and starlit dinners, their connection sparks quickly—honest, unexpected, and edged with something neither of them wants to name.

🌿 The Grove

Their paths cross again inland, at a weathered villa nestled among olive trees, where Leo is housesitting for a friend and Clara is invited to restore a forgotten fresco. Days turn into evenings of shared wine, whispered stories, and a love that feels both impossibly new and eerily familiar.

But not all is how it seems.

🕰️ The Secrets

• Clara isn't just escaping heartbreak—she's hiding the truth behind a scandal that rocked her gallery in London.

• Leo isn't just writing travel pieces—he’s investigating the mysterious disappearance of a mutual acquaintance who once lived at the villa.

• The olive grove itself holds secrets: buried journals, hidden initials in ancient bark, and a past love story eerily similar to their own.

When Clara uncovers a piece of the fresco that was deliberately painted over—and Leo disappears without warning—Clara must decide whether to run again… or stay and uncover the truth behind the man she’s falling for.

💫 Sometimes love blooms where the truth has long been buried...

🌌 But can it survive what the olive trees remember?

📖 Read the captivating first chapter now at TheFirstChapter.shop
🔗 Ideal for fans of romantic suspense, sun-drenched secrets, and stories that whisper through centuries-old trees.