Rosanna Ley writes contemporary and historical women's fiction shaped by travel, family secrets and relationships across generations. Her novels often move between Britain and southern European settings: The Villa centres on Sicily and a family connection uncovered through an inherited property, while Bay of Secrets links a present-day journey to the Canary Islands with an older story involving a convent and concealed parentage. The Little Theatre by the Sea and From Venice with Love similarly use houses, businesses and Mediterranean locations as places where characters uncover earlier lives or reconsider their own. Ley's books are leisurely, relationship-led and mystery-tinged rather than crime-driven. They fit destination fiction, family-secret novels and romantic women's fiction for readers of Santa Montefiore or Victoria Hislop. Read more Less