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The Time of the Foxes – Book 2
A story of magic, love and personal growth, which takes us back to the atmospheres of the novels of Jane Austen and Diana Wynne Jones. Unforgettable characters, an irresistible and iconic fox king, a plot full of twists. Marian’s life has changed drastically with Aleister by her side. However, as she prepares to introduce him to her family, Marian is…
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The King of the Foxes – Book 1
A story of magic, love and personal growth, which takes us back to the atmospheres of the novels of Jane Austen and Diana Wynne Jones. Unforgettable characters, an irresistible and iconic fox king, a plot full of twists. On the day of her eighteenth birthday, Marian has very little to celebrate: her mother has promised her hand in marriage to…
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Lea’s Villa
A tender and evocative story about growing up and finding your place in the world, between the quiet heroism of everyday gestures, a complicated and loving bond between brother and sister, and the hidden magic of a wild corner of the city. Tito lives in Rome, near Villa Pamphilij, which his unbearable sister Lea simply calls “the Villa.” Tito is…
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Haven’s End
A sealed world. A forbidden line. A truth powerful enough to burn everything down. Sixteen-year-old Rebecca has never questioned the rules of Haven’s End — an isolated, self-sufficient settlement lost in the forests of North America. Until the day she crosses the Red Line and discovers the first crack in the only world she’s ever known. What begins as a…
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The Night of the Fireflies
Can the power of first love overcome the barriers of time and space? A poignant story that blends powerful feelings with savage loss. Two alternating female voices until the final truth is revealed. Teresa and Diego grow up together in San Giovanni, a small town in the Italian countryside. They are inseparable—Diego is Teresa’s playmate, her confidant, the shoulder she…
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The Cursed Idol
A sharp, haunting coming-of-age novel about identity, temptation, and the price of wanting too much. Daniel doesn’t fit in – not at home, not at school, not even in his own skin. Then, in an abandoned villa, he finds a stone idol with human hair and a stitched mouth. A note warns: it gives with one hand, but takes with…
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The Night of the Stag Beetles
A group of children’s return to nature when the world powers down. Two teenage sisters, driven from their city by war and an unprecedented energy crisis, set out on a dangerous journey to their grandparents’ mountain village. Among the peaks, they find Ginepro and his band of self-reliant children — and a new way of living, built on trust, courage, and…
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Barriera
In Barriera, everyone’s fate is written in their blood. And you can’t change that. Sixteen-year-old Yasin lives in Barriera, a tough neighbourhood on the outskirts of Turin. He’s caught between his first love and a brother who’s just been released from prison, between who he wants to be and who the world expects him to be. Malik, his brother, is trying…
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The Pikes of Lake Road
Thirty-three days of secrets, dares, and the summer that changed everything. With all the spontaneity of his thirteen years, Mauri retraces the thirty-three days that have made him grow up, starting on that 14th June when his best friend, Brando, dives into the lake and never resurfaces. But incredulous grief soon gives way to doubt: mysterious notes written in Brando’s…
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In The Pard’s Shadow
Some creatures are meant to stay hidden. Some truths are not. Five teens. One summer. A forest full of secrets. They came to study nature. No one expected to find claw marks. Or silence. Or fear. Locals whisper about the “pard”—a creature that doesn’t exist. At least, that’s what they’re told. But something is watching. And someone is hiding the truth. As the forest closes in,…
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The Coming of The Bear
Some animals are born to be free. Some people learn to be. A story of courage, connection, and a bear’s journey home. Karhu is a bear who doesn’t know how to be wild. Viola and Kevin are two teens sent to help set him free. At first, it’s just a summer project: hike, take notes, check the collar. But then the…
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Like Cicadas
The summer Teresa turns twelve, everything feels out of sync. Her friends talk about nail polish, crushes, and growing up—while she still clings to old games and scraped knees. At the family’s usual seaside village, she braces for the loneliest summer ever. Then she meets Agata: quiet, magnetic, and unlike anyone she has ever met before. What begins as a…
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We Are Fire
When love burns, nothing is safe, not even the friendships we thought would last forever. A heady, sun-drenched summer in Puglia. A legendary friendship. A girl who changes everything. Charming and reckless, Nicolas is used to getting what he wants. His quieter best friend, Alex, has always followed him. But when they both fall for the same girl, Mia, their loyalty is…
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Escape From Paradise
Genoa, the late 1950s. Lilli is the fifth of seven sisters, but she couldn’t be more different from them. A tomboy who doesn’t like following the rules, she feels suffocated inside the walls of her home. Everything changes the day Lilli meets Ida, a petty thief in the service of a mysterious woman named Salomè, and her gang of Strays. For…
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The Night of the Malombre
March 2, 1944. A freight train packed with desperate passengers departs Naples in the dead of night, heading for the Lucanian countryside, where food might still be found. On board are hundreds of civilians: smugglers, mothers, soldiers, children, and three teens who don’t know each other — yet. Brando, a boy forced to grow up too soon, climbs aboard to find…
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Even the Devil Gets Tired
When her grandmother tells her the story of the Devil’s Saddle, Efi cannot stop thinking about that poor devil alone, defeated by a horde of angels. So she asks her aunt, who studies flamingos, to go with her to the promontory overlooking the gulf of Cagliari, called the Devil’s Saddle, to learn his side of the story. There she meets…
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The Summer of My First Kiss (Maybe)
Three boys. One pact. Zero experience. A laugh-out-loud summer story about friendship, first crushes, and total humiliation. It’s the first day of the summer holidays, and Dado, Pippo, and Martino have sworn a solemn oath (sealed with spit and snot): before the end of the summer, all of them must kiss a girl. In order to prove the kiss really happened,…
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Hach3r
Raffaele is fifteen, a tech nerd with two passions: AI and Alina, the most intriguing girl at school. But while he’s fluent in programming, he’s hopeless when it comes to people. When he discovers Alina follows a social media group for aspiring writers, he joins and starts posting stories. They’re… not great. Until one day, something strange happens: a new story…
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One Piece at a Time
Twelve-year-old Nina is curious, smart and full of questions — especially about the strange, half-written notebook she finds hidden in a forgotten corner of an old bookshop. Inside are disturbing sketches, unfinished formulas and fragments of thought that seem to reach across time. The only clue? A cryptic signature: “M.” Drawn into the mystery, Nina begins to suspect that the notebook…
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Detour
When a group of strangers ends up in the same forgotten town in the Dolomites after a violent storm, they quickly realize that they are trapped — and something is terribly wrong. Italy, 2025. A sudden storm forces a number of people — families, tourists, cyclists, and commuters—to take a detour off the SS48. One by one, they all end…
coming of age
