Rita Nardi

Rita Nardi is a young Italian writer who has nurtured a love of writing and reading since childhood. She loves the mountains, 1970s’ and ’80s’ music, as well as sunsets by the sea. She made her debut on Wattpad, and Garzanti published her bestsellers Liberi come la neve (Free Like the Snow, 2023), Il narratore di storie (The Storyteller, 2023), Liberi come il vento (Free Like the Wind, 2024) and Trovami dove l’alba fiorisce (Find Me Where the Dawn Blooms, 2025).

Liberi come la neve

Garzanti, 2023

over 80,000 copies sold!

A coming-of-age romantic novel about two young people, Nive and Hurst, with a painful past; they share fears, passions, traumas and dreams.

A love made up of hope, threatened by dark secrets that lead Nive to a junction: freedom or love?

Since her parents died, Nive has not had a place she can call home. When her aunt Josephine also dies, the only person who volunteers to become her guardian is a distant uncle Nive doesn’t even know and who lives on the other side of the world, in Canada.

Moongrove is a small, cold town with a harsh climate and unwelcoming residents. First among them is Hurst Paytah, the future chief of a Native American tribe, who doesn’t tolerate strangers who do not respect his beloved woods and traditions.

Nive can’t wait to turn eighteen so that she can finally be free to leave, to go far away from the surly, arrogant Hurst, who is doing a good job of making her stay a living hell. However, the two young people discover that they are too much alike to hate each other: they share a painful past and the wish to find someone who will soothe their pain. What initially looked like hatred turns into love. But there are too many dark secrets of which Nive is unaware and her past is much darker than she realises. Will she decide to run away, free at last, or stay among the snowy woods?

pp.450

Trinity’s monotonous life is turned upside down by the arrival of Acher. Cohabitation seems impossible: she is a tempest, while he is calm. However, their encounter becomes the key to fighting, each in his or her own way, the grief they carry inside them and finding in each other a way to overcome their suffering.

An enemies to lovers, grumpy & sunshine, slow burn romance.

The teenager Trinity leads a monotonous life in Seafolk. Nothing has been the same since her father’s death. Her father, who would read her stories under their dream catcher and then wish her goodnight, telling her over and over again to dream big. Consequently, she is upset when her mother decides to host in their home – and in particular in her father’s study – Acher Morris, the son of her best friend with the falsely polite smile. Trinity wishes he would get out of her life and home, but he responds to her sharp words and anger only with irritating silence. He is the only person not to be afraid of the wall she has erected between herself and the rest of the world, to understand her grief and always know where to find her. They discover that they complement each other and, although they are alone, they are two against the world.

pp.450

Liberi come il vento

Garzanti, 2024

Following the success of Liberi come la neve (Free Like the Snow) with over 80,000 copies sold, here comes the sequel, from Hurst’s point of view: his relationship with Nive is put to the test by a mysterious feather.

Now that Nive is far away, at university, Hurst feels increasingly insecure and his old fears about not being able to manage his role as chief come back to torment him. In addition, he finds, deep in the woods, a grey eagle feather, which, legend has it, heralds important changes. Perhaps his and Nive’s fates are destined to be intertwined all their lives. Or perhaps it takes just a gust of wind to destroy them.

pp.352

She jealously guards a pendant and its secret; he is a journalist who can’t help but probe mysteries. When their paths cross, they discover that the legend of two sister fawns separated by fate has still much to teach about love and the courage to rewrite one’s rules.

Dual POV

Found likes rules. She has never broken any except for one: a pendant shaped like a fawn she conceals under her blouse, because in her Amish community jewels are considered vanity. And yet her perfect, quiet life is shaken by the arrival of Noam, a young journalist.

Found finds herself charmed by the young man’s provocations despite considering him nosey and a trouble-maker. For the first time in her life, she finds someone who truly understands her, so Noam becomes her second exception. Only he is on the lookout for a secret. A secret with roots in the past, linked to her pendant. A secret that forces her to make a choice that will change her life.

pp.544

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