The Passport

For four hours, the midsummer heat empties Montefiano’s streets until only chickens and a stray pig disturb the silence. Then Don Agostino, the village priest with a noble bearing and a past no one can quite explain, steps into the evening air.

In a Sabine hill town beneath a fortress, life moves to the rhythm of the Italian sun—and to the gossip of its close-knit people. Don Agostino has won their affection through a rare gift for sympathy, though rumors of the indiscretion that sent him from Rome still linger. Now the Princess of Montefiano and her daughter, Bianca, are preparing to return to the ancestral palace after years away, stirring memories in a priest who has kept his own history guarded. What will their return awaken in the quiet town—and in Don Agostino?

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