LA CUSTODE DELLA LUCE (The Keeper of Light) is a quiet, introspective novella about identity, invisibility, and the fragile courage it takes to choose yourself after years of choosing everyone else.

It follows Margherita, a woman who has spent her life being needed — a wife, a mother, a daughter, the silent structure holding everything together — until the day she realizes no one truly sees her anymore. When a forgotten birthday becomes a moment of awakening, she steps away from her life and begins a journey along the Italian coast, searching for lighthouses and the people who keep them burning.

This is not a story about running away, but about remembering.

 About learning that care cannot flow in only one direction.

 About understanding that light, if left untended, slowly fades.

Written as a meditation on emotional labor, quiet resilience, and the possibility of self-reclamation, this novella is meant to be read slowly — like standing alone by the sea at dawn — and held as a reminder that your light is not meant to disappear.