It feels like a fairy tale when Alberta ”Bert” Monte receives a letter addressed to “Countess Alberta Montebianco” at her Hudson Valley, New York, home that claims she’s inherited a noble title, money, and a castle in Italy. While Bert is more than a little skeptical, the mystery of her aristocratic family’s past, and the chance to escape her stressful life for a luxury holiday in Italy, is too good to pass up. At first, her inheritance seems like a dream come true: a champagne-drenched trip on a private jet to Turin, lawyers with lists of artwork and jewels bequeathed to Bert. Desperate for a break from her life back in New York, she ignores the signs that would ordinarily give her pause: the abandoned village at the base of the castle, the whispers of stolen children and the taciturn castle staff, all of whom seem to be hiding from the world outside. Soon she will have to make a choice: to keep the Montebianco family secrets and give up the life she’d known before, or to abandon a complicated legacy generations in the keeping.