Only the splendour of light - Book Blurb Friday

Not immortal, nor even, in truth, invisible, although enough people believed him to be so for it not to matter, but certainly Guiseppe di Angeli was wise enough - and well enough paid - to know when to keep quiet, i.e. forever.

But Maria Simione had to find a way to make him talk, to persuade him to spill not his secrets but those of the man he impersonated, the man who had spent a small fortune in order to live a lie.   And to do that she had to pretend to be someone else, someone who wanted not to be exposed.

Is the Guiseppe di Angeli she eventually meets the man she thinks he is?

Has she convinced him  that she is who she says she is?

Or has he realised that Maria Simione is another impostor?

And have the women done enough to make him care?

[148 words]

This is my week #6 response to Lisa Ricard Claro’s Book Blurb Friday challenge.   Each week Lisa posts a photograph which represents a book cover.   Participants are challenged to “Write a book jacket blurb (150 words or less) so enticing that potential readers would feel compelled to buy the book”   

The frustrating bit is that the book we feel compelled to buy has yet to be written.  

This photograph has been on my wall for some fifteen years – I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with because it’s been challenging me to do it justice ever since.

http://www.writinginthebuff.net/p/book-blurb-friday.html