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Author: Lisa Scottoline

Reviewer: Marcia Wittman

Lisa Scottoline is the bestselling author of numerous legal and psychological thrillers. However, that description does nothing to convey to you the simple beauty and heartfelt emotional journey that readers will take with her first historical novel. Eternal is set during the ventennio, the 20 years of Mussolini’s reign of terror, and her characters battle a world in free-fall from anything resembling their shared childhoods. This is the story of the struggle of anti-Fascists in World War II Rome. It was part of the Nazis’ plan to eradicate Rome’s Jews, but it wasn’t wellknown outside the scholarship, and it needed to be told.” Scottoline should be congratulated for taking on such a despicable yet compelling topic and turning it into a searing, thoughtful and emotional story that will thrill her dedicated readers and newcomers alike. - Jana Siciliano, Bookreporter.com