A Secret in Tuscany

Alan Hlad

Oct 2025 · Bolinda · Narrated by Daphne Kouma

Audiobook

11 hr 8 min

Unabridged

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About this audiobook

Italy, 1943. With war blazing through Europe, nowhere is entirely safe – not even the remote hills of the Tuscan countryside. It's here that Italian partisans, including thousands of women, risk their lives to provide Jewish refugees with an escape route to Switzerland. And it's here, too, that Gianna Conti travels to join the Italian Resistance in the wake of her brother Matteo's death at the hands of German soldiers. While delivering weapons and intelligence for partisans, Gianna meets Tazio Napoli, an American working undercover for the Office of Strategic Services. Despite the growing odds of discovery, Gianna and Tazio conduct high-risk missions to sabotage German operations. With the aid of Tazio's OSS codebook, they encrypt secret messages to each other while apart, hiding them at a dead drop in an abandoned mine. But as the Allies steadily fight their way toward Florence, the occupying German forces grow more desperate, leading to a shocking, unthinkable act of vengeance. Gianna's fate will rest upon her cunning, her resilience and her willingness to keep hope alive, even through the decades that follow ...

About the author

Alan Hlad, who also writes as A.L. Hlad, is the internationally bestselling author of historical fiction novels inspired by real people and events of WWI and WWII, including The Book Spy, Churchill's Secret Messenger, A Light Beyond the Trenches and the USA Today and IndieBound bestseller The Long Flight Home. A member of the Historical Novel Society, Literary Cleveland, Novelitics and the Akron Writers' Group, he is a frequent speaker at conferences, literary events, and book club gatherings. He currently divides his time between Ohio and Portugal.

Daphne Kouma is a London-based actress who performs across theatre, television and film in her native Greek, French and English. She has narrated over 100 audiobook titles for multiple publishers including Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees, Charlotte Higgins's The Greek Myths and The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson. Kouma’s performance in Lucy Foley’s The Paris Apartment was Audie Nominated for Best Narrator and won AudioFile’s Best Narrators award.

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