Love
Spirits
What
Happens In Venice, Book
One
by Diana
Cachey
Genre: Romance/paranormal.
ISBN: 1481031767
ISBN: 9781481031769
Number of pages: 160
Word Count: 40,000
Among the romantic canals of Venice—and oh so many Italian
distractions—can a stunning American lawyer and her psychic sister help the
Ghosts of Venice solve a hushed-up crime?
Book Description:
Louisa Mangotti is a gorgeous
American lawyer and Interpol expert who, after being offered a job working with
the international crime unit in Venice, receives a mysterious postcard from the
Venetian Ghosts, the ancient protectors of the Republic. But Louisa assumes her
bad-boy ex, Matteo, sent it in a quixotic attempt to gain her attention. Louisa may have dismissed the ghosts, but the
ghosts aren’t quite done with her.
When the bodies of two
glassmakers wash up on Murano Island, the cryptic messages persist.
Reluctantly, Louisa calls upon Matteo to help decipher the clues. And before
she knows it, a flame that was never fully extinguished is rekindled. Sensing that her sister is in over her head,
Barbara Mangotti rushes to the rescue, only to be lured away by two handsome
Venetian men.
With time running out, can the
two beauties solve a crime that could threaten the city of Venice itself?
Book
Trailers:
Love Spirits -- Take One http://video214.com/play/t6LZ8mFclEqpBCQlb11gGw/s/dark
Love Spirits -- ghost story http://video214.com/play/R71iLBUayFB0CJEg02UFkg/s/dark
What Happens In Venice -- A Trinity
Book One, Love Spirits
Book Two, Lagoon Lure
Book Three, Magic Island
Excerpt:
Flights, hotels,
apartments. Clothes, jewelry, shoes. Check, check, check. She’d tried on
sweaters, jeans, jackets, surveyed each item to determine the most Italian look
and picked only the most flattering combinations. She lined up toiletries,
stockings, scarves, lingerie and make-up, but not too much, she’d buy better
stuff in Italy. Cat sitters were called to assess availability and suitability.
Processed food was sneered at in grocery stores for savoring of fresh Venetian
produce. The voluntary time-off she scoffed at months earlier when offered it,
turned out to be a perk, not a temporary discharge due to shortage of work. For Barbara, getting to Venice was easy.
Finding ghosts in Venice? Harder. Fetching Louisa and releasing Matteo’s grip?
Impossibile.
Louisa would scheme and stick until
everyone else became unglued. If ghosts were to be found, Louisa would find
them. Barbara hadn’t stopped Louisa from going to Venice so how would she get
her home? Investigate the ghosts, disprove their existence? Barbara imagined her own escape into those
Venetian palaces, their moldy facades toppling into canals. Those quiet
evenings with no traffic, strolling along sea water, visiting quaint bars or
vegetable markets that hugged tiny bridges. Foggy thoughts of Venice led
Barbara to recall how Louisa had written her about a fall, not into the arms of
Matteo, but into a canal. She’d slipped on the algae-coated steps leading into
a traghetto that ferries passengers across the Grand Canal and the only
gondolas still in regular use by Venetians. This traghetto was her daily ride
to work, so exposed algae didn’t concern her. Yet, one day she’d been unable to
maintain her balance long enough to avoid the dive. She’d fallen into the
drink, straight out of the helpful hand of the gondolier, with her expensive
Italian boots, cell phone and all.
“Venetians rallied so fast,” she’d
written to Barbara. “that my shoulders barely touched the water when they
lifted me out of the canal as easily as a floating plastic bag.” Her Venetian
rescuers assured Louisa that all self-respecting residents fell into canals at
some point in their lives. She’d been baptized, Venetian-style. The young gondolier, feeling somewhat
responsible for not holding her securely enough, made up for it by embracing
her tightly. With both arms, he enveloped Louisa in his goose down parka and
rubbed her wet body vigorously and lovingly. Barbara
smiled as she sensed Louisa’s presence deep in her heart, thousands of miles
across the pond--as was the Atlantic Ocean referred to by jet-setters like
Louisa. Don’t fall in again,
dear one, Barbara quietly prayed, until I get there. She tried sending those words to Louisa, knowing not whether
they fell onto her sister’s distant ears.
About
the Author:
Diana Cachey is a licensed
attorney, published academic, and former adjunct law professor. She also holds
a BA in English, and while in law school, she was the first female editor in
chief of her university’s law review. The author of the novel Love Spirits, she
has trained with several New York Times best-selling writers, including Robert
Allen, with more than seventy-two million books sold. For more than a decade,
Cachey has been traveling to Venice, the setting of her novel, on extended
trips several times a year. The cafés, restaurants, and many other haunts of
Venice play a prominent role in her sexy paranormal mystery-romance about a
beautiful American lawyer guided by the Ghosts of Venice in the investigation
of a hushed-up crime.
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This book sounds amazing. I love the cover. Thanks for having the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteHello Anita, Thanks for your coment & SO GLAD you love the cover. Isn't it wonderful, mysterious & beautiful? Good luck on the giveaway. Hope you can make it to my online party too, Haunted Palooza. Ciao for now, Diana
DeleteDear Susan Platt & Other BookLovers, Hello from my favorite place -- Venice, where shadows dance with the heart! Thanks for featuring me here & the giveaway includes books swags with Venetian mask charm as well as a charm of the book cover. Love you all, Diana Cachey
ReplyDeleteP.S. Would you (or one of your featured authors or readers) like to participate in my ONLINE HALLOWEEN PARTY? All month during October, we present chills, thrills, prizes, sexy supernatural and more for Haunted-Palooza. Let me know, D