Art, Secrets & Second Chances in Italy
She planned every second of her escape. She didn’t plan on him.
In less than two weeks, Emma Harper walks away from a career everyone envies, the married man attached to it, and the life she no longer recognizes. Her plan is precise: three months in Tuscany, with exactly one day in Florence.
Her guide is Massimo “Max” Ferraro—straw hat, leather bag, a firm rule about clients, and an unsettling talent for noticing everything. He leads her up all 463 steps of Brunelleschi’s dome, through two carefully chosen rooms of the Uffizi, and into a bookbinder’s workshop where she buys a blank blue journal.
Somewhere along the route, Emma stops treating the day like an itinerary.
By evening, she is seeing Florence differently. She is also seeing Massimo differently.
And when she leaves for Lucca the next morning, that one carefully controlled day follows her into the three months ahead.
One Day in Florence is a warm, sharply observed novel about reinvention, unexpected connection, and what happens when the plan runs out.
Book Details
- Author: Gaby Frisoli
- Publisher: Three Lane Press
- Publication date: October 15, 2026
- ISBN: 979-8-9942905-1-4
- Format: Paperback
