For Renata

A 40-year-old journal holds a secret that sets Mark Valente on a search for Renata, the love of his uncle's life.

The journal chronicles Peter Ahearn's isolated life as keeper of a nearby lighthouse and his passionate and dangerous love affair with the young Renata.

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But the Portuguese beauty denies everything, leaving Mark to question whether anything his uncle wrote is true. Now he must connect past to present, and piece together a picture of what really happened decades before...and he must grapple with his own burgeoning infatuation with the now middle-aged, mysterious Renata.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 330 pages

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