To find her own spotlight, she’ll have to choose the love that sees her clearly.

Julianne Finnegan has spent her life in the shadow of her celebrated older brother, Michael. Stuck in a job she hates and unsure of who she is beyond her family’s expectations, she can’t bear the thought of another Monday.

Then a chance encounter with Oliver, a handsome young actor, gives her the courage to quit and take a chance on herself. As Julianne works to revive a struggling community theater, she discovers confidence, purpose, and a growing affection for the man who believed in her first.

But just as her heart begins to open, Gavin returns to her life in a new way. A famous film director and Michael’s longtime best friend, he has always seen Julianne as a little sister—until her newfound passion and strength make him realize she has become the woman he never expected to love.

Now Julianne must choose between the glitter of a long-held dream and the steady promise of a love that sees who she truly is.

Just when Giuseppe was beginning to share fragments of his past, his life was cut short — leaving Gabriel with half-stories and no one left to answer the question he couldn’t unhear: Why Papa? Why do we have to leave?

Unmoored by grief, Gabriel Salviati travels to Venice — the city his grandfather left as a boy and never returned to — hoping to find the answers Giuseppe never gave him. Instead, Venice reveals a history his family never spoke about. An accusation. A betrayal. A family forced to flee after the war.

As Gabriel follows fragile threads of memory through quiet neighborhoods and hidden workshops, he discovers that understanding the past is only part of the journey — the harder work is learning to live with grace in the present.

Fragments of Grace is a novel about family, faith, and the way healing begins by listening to the stories we were never meant to hear.