Award-winning author Gina Iafrate has announced that the ebook version of her romantic fiction novel, The English Professor, will be available at no charge on October 19 and 20, 2026. The free promotion gives prospective readers an unobstructed entry into a series that follows one family across decades and continents, and it carries particular weight because the title opens a narrative arc that continues through two subsequent novels.
The story centers on Andrew Robertson, an introverted, middle-aged professor who leaves his unremarkable London life for Sicily, where strangers welcome him kindly. In that sensuous Mediterranean setting he develops a burning infatuation for another man's wife, Francesca. Their union produces a child, but Andrew must return to London while Francesca must shield herself, Andrew and the child from the violent reach of her husband. That premise establishes the stakes that drive the books that follow.
The Professor's Daughter is the sequel, set in Italy and following Gracy Robertson, the love child of that intense affair. Taken at birth from her dying mother and left with her devastated father, Gracy lives in hiding for years to avoid the corrupt mobsters who took her mother's life. When the threat finally lifts, the pair believe peace can return to the place where the professor's passion led to Gracy's conception. Just as normalcy seems lasting, the professor's life journey ends, leaving Gracy grief-stricken and challenged to overcome an empty world. Her destiny takes her across the ocean, where she finds love and affection, though fate strikes again with people and difficult situations that threaten her peace of mind, her heart and her life.
Love and Betrayal is the third in the series and follows Gracy after she believes she has found her true eternal love. In married life that happiness turns disenchanting as Alvaro's vows change, and his unfaithfulness brings pain, suffering and catastrophic consequences influenced by someone else's greed, jealousy and revenge. Gracy's emotional journey of survival turns challenging, and in solitude and despair the universal bliss tests her with waves of courage until caring people help her find love, peace and support once more.
The free offering matters because Iafrate's books are built as layered sagas that let readers travel the globe without leaving home, with story lines that reveal the richness of the human experience through finely drawn characters and rich, tactile descriptions of exotic places. Readers can find the author's catalog at her Amazon author page, and more information is available at her website. Other entries in her Strong Women series include The Girl From The Cornfield, about Giuliana Ferrante growing up in a sleepy Italian mountain town in 1950 whose life is rocked by a vicious attack before she pursues an education and a legal degree, and Bestowed By Love And Splendour, about a broken-hearted wife and mother drawn to the island of Sardinia. Iafrate is also the author of Releases From My Soul, a collection of anthologies combining true stories, adventures and poems, and is currently working on her seventh novel, The Shoeless Boy.
