Lagoon
Lure
What
Happens In Venice
Book Two
Diana
Cachey
ISBN-13: 978-1500334529
ISBN-10: 1500334529
LCCN: 2014911793
Number of pages: 160
Word Count: 40,000
The Venetian ghosts, ancient protectors
of the Republic, continue to haunt Louisa Mangotti, the beautiful American
lawyer working as an Interpol expert for the police.
She no longer scoffs at the ghosts, who
plant clues to help solve a hushed up crime that threatens Venice, but she
still suspects her bad boy ex-lover, Matteo, has crafted a plan to distract her
from his own involvement in a possible murder.
Nonetheless she’s forced to depend on him
in deciphering clues, including diving with him on a shipwreck in the lagoon.
Her sister, who communes with ghosts & has arrived to rescue Louisa, is
lured away from the chase into a steamy affair with a possible phantom.
Another feisty foreigner, Louisa’s best
friend Rebecca, who goes by her vacation name, Rouge, spices up the action and
adds to the antics when she visits for Carnival and to sample the Venetian
charm and romance. More sexy men, as well as ghosts, distract the women as they
follow a maze of cryptic clues & questionable messengers.
The three women fall deeper into the
whirlpool of Venice, its wonderful sights, and alluring men while they navigate
the stormy course which they are following.
Venice always delivered.
For thousands of years she spread out her bounty for swarms of people who
feasted upon her beauty. They stayed in ornate palaces or luxury hotels and
paraded in stylish fashions. They admired diverse art, listened to sweet music,
sampled delicious food.
They also enjoyed
plentiful romantic opportunities.
Ah, the romantic allure
of Venice. It continues to this day. Indeed, soon after Barbara’s arrival,
Venice offered her no less than three handsome men. Now there stood her sister,
Louisa, who begged to hear the dirt on two of them but knew nothing of the
third man, the one Barbara wanted most. She planned to keep him a secret.
Barbara looked around
and tried to take it all in, all that Venice had to offer. She saw in front of
her a small island, which sat placidly in the lagoon and proudly displayed its
huge monastic bell tower. Although a massive presence, this tower was easily
dwarfed by the one it faced -- the more famous one -- the one that housed the
bells of San Marco. She gazed across the water, let the reflecting sun’s rays
warm her face and both Venetian towers began to toll their bells behind her and
before her. They echoed across the lagoon, reverberated throughout the tranquil
setting. Barbara took note of the bells. She’d been trained by her Italian
friends to pay particular attention to what she’d been the thinking in that
precise moment these bells began to chime.
She’d been thinking
about secrets. That third man. He must remain her secret.
Thus began her
diversion, a long philosophical theory about her twin orange cats.
“Back home in Seattle,”
she said, “my cats confuse and distract me during morning meditation, just like
those two Venetian men did my first night in Venice. The two inquisitive cats
circle my cushion then jump on the table where I offer blessings of flowers and
candy. They sniff and inspect as if they’ve never seen the ritual before.”
Louisa yawned.
“Those cats seem to see
me anew each day, as a thing they need to supervise, approve or inspect.
Eventually, they settle nearby to meditate on their own. They observe my
struggle to quiet my mind while they remain perfect little meditators. Those
two Venetian men were the same. While I was nervous and disquieted, they just
purred.”
Louisa frowned.
Love Spirits
What
Happens In Venice
Book One
Diana
Cachey
Genre: Romance/paranormal.
ISBN: 1481031767
ISBN: 9781481031769
Number of pages: 160
Word Count: 40,000
Tagline: 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?
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?
From the Top of Our
Great Bell Tower Saint Mark Square Venice, Italy
Dear wide-eyed tourist, Don’t
go to Venice.
But if you do, don’t
fall in -- in a canal, in love or into Venice itself. As if you have a choice.
Hear us cackling?
Listen. We came to warn
you about La Serenissima, the Most Serene One, as Venice has been called since
before the Middle Ages. You will not heed our warning and you will come looking
for us. How do we know? It happens every time a Venetian ghost story is told.
As ancient protectors of
the Venetian republic, we ghosts guard her virtues of which she has many. One
reason we love her, and you will too, is that she is stuck in time. Did you
know Venice functions without motorcars or trucks? We don’t like motorcars or
trucks. Hundreds of tiny islands sewn together by foot bridges leaves no need
for noisy, fume-spewing vehicles, thankfully.
We prefer floating.
Our classic transport is
the gondola. Mostly reserved for you tourists now, gondolas are and always have
been helmed by the most prestigious oarsmen in the world -- highly trained
gondoliers who stand while rowing through the labyrinth of canals. They don’t
mind when we ride with or without you while they serenade us with opera, Frank
Sinatra songs and romantic favorites.
Ah yes, romance. As one
visitor put it, “It’s their schtick, a Venetian ploy, an act to get sexy with
you.” It is true. Venice equals romance equals sex.
If the shadows of Venice
frighten you or you feel like you’re in a dream, have fun with it, float with
us. We are watching over you. We want to further your journey to a more magical
life because we think a person is charmed by a trip to La Serenissima.
It could change your
soul forever. Just ignore this cautionary tale.
We remain in your service, The Venetian Ghosts
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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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