The opportunity to become companion to an elderly Italian lady, alternating between working in Northumberland and Venice, looks like a job in a million for Carrie Shiller – or at least, that’s what her best friend Mia thinks. Carrie herself isn’t so sure, until she meets her new employer’s mysteriously taciturn son and realises that there is much more to the grand Signora and her twin-centre lifestyle than she had thought at first sight...

The third Emerald Ring story