Marina is currently working on a new book which will be released by John Murray in Spring/Summer 2013.

Like her other novels the book is set at the zenith of the Italian Renaissance, but for the first time Marina is turning her focus to the south of Italy.

One unforgettable summer on the island of Sicily, two young lovers meet, but are parted cruelly by natural disaster and man-made slander. In a journey that takes us from the sunlit southern courts of the south to the gorgeous Renaissance cities of the north, Marina tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers and why they were destined to be apart before they could be together.