It's not Sunday anymore: Two cities, one breath

By Simone Bianchini

It's Not Sunday Anymore
Two Cities, One Breath

Two cities. One breath. And one shot that changes everything.

Under Bologna's endless porticoes, Luca runs a small bookshop that smells of paper, coffee, and second chances. It's a quiet life built on small rituals: opening the shutters, recommending the right novel to the right stranger, believing that love can be lived in the everyday.

Then Dario gets transferred to Milan.

In a city of neon, speed, and duty, Dario is a police detective trying to stay upright between night shifts, pressure, and the invisible weight of being a father. The distance between Milan and Bologna turns their relationship into a calendar of postponed moments: unsent messages, calls cut short, weekends that don't happen. Luca remains in Bologna, surrounded by stories that feel easier to hold than his own.

When Matteo, Dario's teenage son, begins drifting into Luca's orbit, something shifts. The distance is no longer only between two men, but between roles and responsibilities: father and son, lover and partner, the life you chose and the life that keeps choosing you back. What starts as a fragile connection becomes a lifeline made of shared meals, hesitant honesty, and the courage to show up when it would be easier to disappear.

But the cities don't let them breathe for long.

A pattern of precise robberies resurfaces - clean, methodical, almost surgical - echoing a hit in Bologna and pulling Dario into an investigation that spreads through Milan like a bruise. Alongside Elena Ferri, a sharp, instinctive colleague, Dario follows a trail of details that never quite add up: stolen jewelry, quiet entrances, vanishing shadows, a third presence always one step ahead.

The case accelerates into a rain-soaked chase, a split-second decision, and a single gunshot.

After that, everything becomes sirens, corridors, phone calls - and a code word that makes the world tilt: code red.

It's Not Sunday Anymore is contemporary fiction with the tension of a thriller and the intimacy of a love story: a novel about distance, loyalty, family, and the thin line between what we lose - and what we can still keep.

Perfect for readers who love: emotionally driven contemporary fiction, LGBTQ+ romance, Italian settings (Bologna and Milan), and suspense that tightens quietly - until it breaks.

Simone Bianchini writes stories where place, people, and emotion collide, blending lyrical intimacy with the urgency of real life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GKY83CGC
• ISBN13: 9798246384626
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"