After a breakup that shatters everything, Elisa watches as the future she had spent four years building crumbles in a matter of seconds. Her plans to move to London vanish along with her relationship, and, adrift and uncertain, she accepts her godmotherโs suggestion: to go to Italy to attend her best friendโs wedding and find a fresh start there.
What Elisa doesnโt expect is to be reunited with a past she never truly forgotโฆ even though she pretends otherwise.
Milena Barone, the groomโs sister, is everything high society admires: elegant, aloof, and calculating. But beneath that perfection lies someone who has never stopped clinging to the memories of an eternal summer, nor to the promise that marked her youth. Years ago, she built a wall to protect herselfโฆ and now she doesnโt know how to tear it down.
A necklaceโgold for Elisa, silver for Milenaโholds a promise made in childhood that neither of them has been able to break, even though time and distance have tried to erase it.
As the wedding of the year approaches, Elisa finds herself caught up in parties, secrets, and family tensions, unwittingly drawing Milenaโs attentionโฆ and becoming her muse. But when the past bursts in with force and the necklace takes its place once again, both must confront what they feel, what they kept silent, and what still binds them together.
Amid jealousy, art, and second chances, Elisa and Milena will discover that some promises are not forgottenโฆ they simply wait for the right moment to be fulfilled.