The milky way

the long version

"Confident, hard-working, and practical, architect Anne Martin is living the good life in Montreal. Yet one day she witnesses a scene that causes a crack to appear in her life, a crack that slowly widens and eventually threatens her very existence.". "At this time of lost certainty, Anne's work takes her to Tunis. Here, among the ruins of Carthage, she meets Alessandro Moretti, an Italian archaeologist who is her senior by nearly twenty years and affects her as no one ever has. Anne gradually faces her demons - repressed sorrow, the bewilderment caused by a mysterious family tragedy, paralyzing fear - and takes a chance on love."--BOOK JACKET.