A grieving writer finds unexpected love beneath an old olive tree.
Emma Turner arrives in Monteverde, a quiet village in southern Italy, hoping to outrun the shadows of her past. A travel writer who hasn’t written in months, she carries with her a notebook filled with blank pages and a heart still grieving the loss of her fiancé.
She expects solitude. Silence. A place to quietly disappear.
Instead, she finds an olive grove, a local legend, and a man named Luca.
Luca Moretti is a farmer tied to the land by family, memory, and wounds of his own. He doesn’t expect Emma to stay, and she doesn’t plan to be noticed. But under the shade of an ancient olive tree—one rumored to spark unexpected love—their guarded lives begin to intertwine.
As they share sunlit mornings, quiet grief, and hesitant laughter, Emma and Luca discover that healing sometimes grows where you least expect it. But just as Emma begins to open her heart again, Luca vanishes, leaving behind more questions than answers.
In a town where nothing is quite as sleepy as it seems, Emma must decide if she’s brave enough to write her next chapter—not in her notebook, but in her life.
Beneath the Olive Tree is a tender and hopeful romance about letting go, starting over, and the quiet, powerful magic of second chances.
