Six years ago, Elena left Monterosso on the first train north and never looked back. She told herself it was clean. She told herself she was fine.
She was neither.
Now she's back - sixty days, one restoration project, one medieval chapel that needs saving. What she didn't plan for was Marco. Still there. Still steady. Still carrying the silence she left him with.
You Always Knew is the story of two people who loved each other completely, lost each other over four words overheard in the dark, and find themselves - six years later - working side by side in a seven-hundred-year-old chapel on the Ligurian coast, surrounded by old stone and carved wood and everything they never said.
This is not a story about falling in love.
It's about the hardest thing - choosing it again. With open eyes. With all the history between you. With the knowledge of exactly what it cost the first time.
Set against the breathtaking beauty of the Cinque Terre, You Always Knew is a deeply emotional novel about grief, restoration, and the specific courage it takes to ask instead of assume.
Some things don't break. They wait.
