by Mary Bly explores love, loss, and second chances, set on the picturesque island of Elba, off the coast of Italy. Shakespearean scholar Lizzie Delford has Stage 3 cancer and has decided to forgo her last treatment. To distract herself, she embarks on a working vacation in Elba, advising her friend’s actor boyfriend on his latest movie, while she figures out what to do with the time she has left. When she meets Dante, an Italian chef with a charming 12-year-old daughter, Etta, Lizzie faces a poignant moral quandary: is it wrong to fall in love when you know you’re running out of time?