Passion and Death in Tuscany At the Edge of Time

In the first chapter the four principal characters meet in theRistorante Moro. They are: the handsome & youthful-appearing 68-year old retired professor, Allan Prait; the beautiful young brunette Lucia Conde, a gifted pianist; & the equally beautiful blonde art student, Dawn Knight. Soon, the women, bored with their Italian dates, engage Al in a teasing, flirtatious exchange. Hours later as the Ristorante prepares to close, Lucia with Al at her side is shocked by the appearance of her stepfather, the handsome 46-year old womanizer, Michele Angelo Leone who had raped Lucia on her 14th birthday. Soon these principals & several secondary characters generate explosive relationships of romance, lust, sex & jealousy which ultimately end in a robbery, violence & death. Finally in a short epilogue, the three principals are happily reunited with their American relatives in California.Stone, Ralph O. is the author of 'Passion and Death in Tuscany At the Edge of Time' with ISBN 9780738828145 and ISBN 0738828149.