Publisher's Synopsis
Nothing ever happened to Hilary Heckmondwicke and she had no expectation that anything ever would. She was not young. She was dull. She was a plain package. Until one lonely Christmas she decided on a plan to change it all. She would go to New York, one last trip and never return.Antonio Luca Cazendare was a native New Yorker. A small man. Not a young man, an unemployed man living in a tiny apartment and the rent was due. Sitting in a coffee bar, he half heartedly contemplated what to do, throw himself in the river, beg... or turn to a life of crimeThen something magic happens.