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Keys to Montefioralle: Murder, Inheritance, and the Old Gods
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 2 2025
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Montefioralle is beautiful the way knives are beautiful.
When vintner Sara Valenti inherits her family's Tuscan estate, she expects ledgers and lawsuits-not the revelation that the vineyard's fortune was built on centuries of offerings. As bodies and secrets surface, rival magnate Domenico Sansone moves to restore the old rites. The courts want calm. The dead want their names. And the hill beneath the vines remembers every debt.
Armed with a circle of stubborn neighbors, Sara fights back with small tools and bigger principles: chairs at the corners, salt at the seams, iron for roots, towels for the mess-habits that turn terror into custom. But harvest is coming, and the land is hungry. To save her home, Sara must outmaneuver a charming enemy, rewrite what due means, and teach an ancient appetite to say please.
Keys to Montefioralle - Murder, Inheritance, and the Old Gods is a gothic supernatural thriller set in the hills of Tuscany-equal parts haunted mystery, legal chess match, and fierce love letter to community.
What you'll find:
- Atmospheric Tuscany and a chapel bell that tells the truth
- A twisty inheritance mystery with courtroom stakes and folkloric teeth
- Found-family courage and civic magic you can do with kitchen tools
- A ruthless rival, a cursed wall, and a town that learns to say enough
- A satisfying, hopeful resolution-more mercy than gore
Perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic, history-tinged occult suspense, and smart, atmospheric thrillers where place is a character.
Content notes: grief and loss; referenced ritual violence (no graphic on-page gore); peril in subterranean spaces; thematic religious elements.
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