“This is a joke, isn’t it?” she asks, full of hope. “You guys are just playing a joke on me?”
Linda Melodia strokes Elettra’s hair, smiling. “What if we were?”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PIERDOMENICO BACCALARIO was born in Acqui Terme, a beautiful little town in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. He grew up in the middle of the woods with his three dogs and his black bicycle.
He started writing in high school. When lessons got particularly boring, he’d pretend he was taking notes, but he was actually coming up with stories. He also met a group of friends who were crazy about role-playing games, and with them he invented and explored dozens of fantastic worlds.
He studied law at university but kept writing and began publishing novels. After he graduated, he also worked with museums and cultural projects, trying to make dusty old objects tell interesting stories. He began to travel and change horizons: Celle Ligure, Pisa, Rome, Verona …
He loves seeing new places and discovering new lifestyles, although, in the end, he always returns to the comfort of familiar ones.
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