The Sound of the Hours

1944, Barga, Tuscany. Everything Vittoria Guidi has ever known is at risk. German troops occupy the mountains around her home and US Buffalo soldiers are drawing near. Trapped, does she side with her Scots-Italian father or Fascist mother? Choose Mussolini, or her King? Fight for the life she wants, or accept the one she lives? Frank Chapel, a young, black American soldier fighting for a country that refuses him the vote, is unlike anyone Vita has ever met before. In the chaos, they find each other - but can their growing love overcome prejudice and war?