The White Palazzo
Novel by Ellen Cooney

The White Palazzo is part romance, part folk tale, part road novel, part investigation into the very nature of love, and fully a free-spirited comedy, with all sorts of vivid characters (including the car).

Tara Barlow, a young, small-town employment agency scout, and Signora Guida Santucci, the local professional psychic, have always done things their own way. When Tara's dream wedding venue burns down, she leaves town and her fiancé to head West in her prize Mustang. Tara's alarmed family sends Guida to find her. The last thing they expect to happen is to meet and fall in love-but Fate has other plans, and their attraction to each other is like a force of nature, like gravity. With their destinies sealed but their pasts encroaching, they attempt escape, and live out the happy ending Thelma and Louise only dreamed about. Magic happens.

Also available by this author:
The Old Ballerina