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    Valentine in Venice
    Valentine in Venice
    Valentine in Venice
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    Valentine in Venice

    By Kaya Quinsey

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    Valentine Wells returns to Venice. After having visited ten years earlier when she was just sixteen years old, it was where she had impulsively met Lorenzo Dipachio. Her first kiss. Her first love.

    Now twenty-six, Valentine is a successful wedding photographer in Chicago. Still impulsive, Valentine is recently divorced after being married for about a minute in Las Vegas. And she doesn't miss the irony of being a divorced wedding photographer. Also dealing with her mother's recent diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's, Valentine's father convinces her that she needs a break.

    Now that she is back in Venice, Valentine wants to prove to herself that she's no longer the impulsive, daring girl who got married (and quickly divorced) in Vegas to a man she barely knew. Now, she is living by a new set of rules: planned, cautious, and carefully executed.

    But her plan is challenged when she falls (literally) into the path of her first love, Lorenzo. And with Valentine's Day around the corner, will Valentine be able to keep herself from making another big mistake?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks To Go Now
    Release dateJan 4, 2019
    ISBN9781386751434
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      Valentine in Venice - Kaya Quinsey

      Dedication:

      For Ryan – my eternal Valentine.

      Excerpt from Valentine in Venice

      Valentine felt herself slip on a slick stone, as if it was happening in slow motion. First, clutching her camera to her chest. Second, both feet losing traction with the ground. Third, oh goodness, third... Valentine flung out her arms in an attempt to stop herself from sliding into the canal. But it was too late. At the last moment, she narrowly managed to fling her bag and camera onto the walkway before she plunged into the freezing cold water.

      Argh! Valentine cried out as she surfaced, gasping for air. Before she had a moment to register what had happened, she felt two hands on the back of her soaking wet sweater pull her up. She landed in a boat with a wet thud.

      Shivering, Valentine gratefully accepted the jacket that was placed around her.

      I – I... she fumbled for words. A gentleman spoke to her in Italian, concern in his voice. I don’t speak It-Italian... She looked up at the stranger who had saved her. For a moment her heart stopped. Surely it wasn’t. It absolutely couldn’t be. Lorenzo?

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      Valentine in Venice

      A Books to Go Now Publication

      Copyright © Kaya Quinsey

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      Prologue

      Valentine Wells reluctantly gave Justine her last chocolate. But it was worth it.

      Okay, so you’ll make sure that Mrs. Kent won’t notice I’m gone? she asked her friend.

      Justine nodded enthusiastically. No problem at all. When she calls your name, Sandra will say ‘present’ as Jill and I make some sort of distraction. It’ll be perfect.

      Valentine smiled. This was it. She was going to make a run for it. At least, for the afternoon. More than anything, she wanted to stop off at that nearby gelato shop they passed earlier.

      But that wasn’t on the schedule, according to Mrs. Kent.

      So Valentine thought up a plan. After all, she was in Venice. Why not make the best of it? Hugging her best friend, Valentine waved goodbye to Justine as she snuck out the first floor window from the Hotel Casa Mia. It was easy, considering that there was no screen and it led to a walkway immediately below. Not exactly robber-proof, Valentine thought. But then again, the windows were stunning.

      How are you going to remember which window to sneak back into? Justine had hissed at her.

      Easy, Valentine said. She pulled out a bottle of her favorite pink nail polish, marking the windowpane with one swift streak. Now I’ll know, she said with a grin.  

      Landing on the paving stones below, Valentine happily walked down the sun-drenched laneway. Her alert, sixteen-year-old eyes scanned for any sign of Mrs. Kent, but the coast appeared to be clear. The sun scorched her already sunburned shoulders as she walked along the old stone walkway. Black gondolas passed along the sea green canal. A few laneways over was the gelato shop–or, as it was called in

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