Giulia, love, and a handful of lavender

Three broken hearts, one lie, and a summer that changes everything.

Giulia enters Valdelila as if she were entering a town hall to do an errand, and not the village of her childhood summers, which she hasn't visited in ten years. That's why she feels overwhelmed when she discovers a house still marked by her grandparents' lavender, a family barely holding together, and a child who turns her world upside down.

León has been clinging to a self-imposed routine for years. He has rightfully earned the reputation of the town's official grump, and that suits him just fine. All he wants is the life he has built on silences and for his mother to stop pestering him to fall in love, as if she were a fairy godmother and love something one could choose. That's why he doesn't even understand himself when he ends up faking a relationship with the girl who drives like a maniac and who has made all of Valdelila remember her for her teenage mischief.

Between chaotic routines, tension-filled encounters, and an attraction they both try in vain to ignore, Giulia and León will discover that the best stories begin when barriers fall.

A romantic and deeply emotional novel about second chances, healing relationships, and the necessary risk of feeling at home again.