The Solicitor

By Shauna Ritz

A prodigy with a gift for languages and a taste for danger, Marcello Luna leaves Montevideo in 1977 with a glittering r sum -Fulbright scholar, concert-level pianist, chameleon in any room-and a secret that could unmake him. In Los Angeles, he and his poised wife Beatriz step into the orbit of a Beverly Hills dynasty where money is a mirror and every reflection lies. What begins as reinvention becomes seduction, fraud, and a love story twisted by ambition.

As the city glows-Trousdale parties, Vegas openings, the mother church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles - The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels-Beatriz charts another map: the quiet ledger of what survival costs. While whispers about a new, nameless illness move from rumor to hospital corridors, Marcello's charisma curdles into control, and the couple's marriage becomes the stage for a final, devastating performance.

Told with the elegance of a classic Hollywood melodrama and the bite of a modern thriller, The Solicitor spans a decade of secrets and awakenings, from candlelit cathedrals in Uruguay to mirrored salons above Sunset. It's a story about forbidden love and the masks we choose; about class, immigration, and the AIDS era's shattering truth; and about the one legacy we get to decide-who tells our story when we cannot.

For readers of The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Line of Beauty, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, this is a lavish, propulsive novel about desire, deception, and the price of being seen.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWQ3ZB5N
• ISBN13: 9798295685187
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Providence Street Corporation
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"