The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro (2017) online

The compelling and erotic story of a love affair between a young man and a older woman in Taormina, Sicily, in the sixties. He, the narrator, is a twenty-one-year-old American art student traveling the world. She is a countess - apparently cold, haughty and inaccessible. And with her is the doctor Haroun, her gay traveling companion. When he makes their acquaintance at the Palazzo D'oro, the narrator finds himself filled with unexpected lust and playing a part in something he doesn't quite understand. Finally, aged sixty, he returns to Taormina to tell his story and confront the present