A Harvest of Secrets: A Novel

Written by Roland Merullo

Narrated by Will Damron

From the bestselling author of From These Broken Streets comes a sweeping novel of love, resistance, and courage set against the backdrop of WWII Italy.

Italy, 1943. The seeds of terror planted by Hitler have brought Allied forces to Italian soil. Young lovers separated by war—one near a Tuscan hill town, the other a soldier on the Sicilian front—will meet any challenge to reunite.

Vittoria SanAntonio, the daughter of a prosperous vineyard owner, is caught in a web of family secrets. Defying her domineering father, she has fallen for humble vineyard keeper Carlo Conte. When Carlo is conscripted into Mussolini’s army, it sets a fire in Vittoria, and she joins the resistance. As the Nazi war machine encroaches, Vittoria is drawn into dangers as unknowable as those faced by the man she loves.

Badly wounded on the first day of the invasion, Carlo regains consciousness on a farm in Sicily. Nursed back to health by a kind family there, he embarks on an arduous journey north through his ravaged homeland. For Carlo and Vittoria, as wartime threats mount and their paths diverge, what lies ahead will test their courage as never before.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Sep 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781713656074

Roland Merullo

Roland Merullo is the bestselling author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Once Night Falls; The Delight of Being Ordinary; The Talk-Funny Girl, an Alex Award winner; Vatican Waltz, a Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2013 pick; Breakfast with Buddha, an international bestseller now in its twentieth printing; Lunch with Buddha, selected as one of the Best Books of 2013 by Kirkus Reviews; Revere Beach Boulevard, named one of the “Top 100 Essential Books of New England” by the Boston Globe; and Revere Beach Elegy, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction. Born in Boston and raised in Revere, Massachusetts, Roland attended Brown University, where he obtained a bachelor of arts in Russian studies and a master of arts in Russian language and literature. A former Peace Corps volunteer, he’s also made his living as a carpenter, college professor, and cabdriver. Roland, his wife, and their two lovely daughters live in the hills of western Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.rolandmerullo.com.

Reviews for A Harvest of Secrets

[Joanne Beck · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is must read for training against the rising fascist tide here in america

[edwardsgt · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A fictional account around characters on an exclusive winery in Montepulciano in Tuscany during the final year of the Italian campaign in WW2, 1943. The daughter of the winery has a lover who is one of the vineyard workers and goes off to Sicily to fight with the Axis against the Allied invasion. Some of the workers support the Italian partisans but the vineyard owner supports Mussolini and the Nazis. The author crafts an authentic sounding story about how these lives interact in the unprecedented fall of Mussolini, the Nazis and the approaching Allies.