"When it came right down to it, our dream trip felt like falling off a cliff." After early retirement, in 2017 Pam and her husband Dave packed four suitcases and one beer cooler full of insulin and boarded a one-way flight to Italy for a year-long dream trip. The dream was to live like locals, find out-of-the-way restaurants, and watch the seasons change. But behind every dream, there is the reality. What happened when two people retire from their full-time jobs and realize they have … [Read more...] about Braving the World: Adventures in Travel and Retirement by Pam Saylor
Ardor’s Prestige by Patricia M. Muhammad
Duchessa Anastasia sneaks away from the family mansion at night in 18th Century Venezia during Carnevale. Giorgio, her cavalier servente, has feelings for her. Anastasia accepts the esteemed courtier, Leandro's marriage proposal though he fails to disclose an important detail about himself. The royal guards seize Giorgio at the d’Alessi manor. The Crown accuses Giorgio of treason. Capriana, a servant, knows how Giorgio was framed. A conspirator intends to murder her. Anastasia and Leandro … [Read more...] about Ardor’s Prestige by Patricia M. Muhammad
Interview with Author – PatriciaBarletta
About PatriciaBarletta: I've always wanted to be a writer. That was right after I realized that becoming a fairy ballerina or a princess wasn't going to happen. But being a writer meant I could go places in my head and be other people as much as I wanted. I could even be a fairy ballerina or a princess! My stories have always had romance and history in them. I feel that one sparks the other. I'm not sure I'd really want to live in the past with no running water, take-out … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – PatriciaBarletta
Under The Italian Sun – 5 Storytellers Wrote 5 Novels Of Mystery, Romance And Intrigue by Maria Grazia Swan, Beate Boeker, Candida Martinelli, Julie Sarff, J.B. Hawker
This book is bargain priced from 08/15/2014 until 10/15/2014 5 contemporary cozy mystery novels with clean romance set in Italy. The authors are best-selling, award-winning, well-reviewed and professional. Intrigue, humor, mystery, love, adventure, romance, character...and Italy! Summer reading at its best! 5 complete novels, and YOU SAVE $16.00!! 1. A New Life - Beate Boeker: Sweet-romance and mystery with a classic heroine. Imagine you're accused of murder, but you're innocent. Imagine … [Read more...] about Under The Italian Sun – 5 Storytellers Wrote 5 Novels Of Mystery, Romance And Intrigue by Maria Grazia Swan, Beate Boeker, Candida Martinelli, Julie Sarff, J.B. Hawker
Faces in the Water by Tonya Macalino @TonyaMacalino
Who created that slide of silk across your skin as you reached for your cinematic lover? Who recorded the crushing weight of the grizzly as you fought for your life in the fictional wilderness? It is Lone Pine Pictures’ Alyse Kate Bryant who wraps your body in the story only your mind was privy to before. A brilliant sensory immersion artist and a wild daredevil, Alyse will do almost anything for the perfect sensory file, but the violent death of her father has her teetering on the very edge … [Read more...] about Faces in the Water by Tonya Macalino @TonyaMacalino
The Echoes of Love by Hannah Fielding
This book is bargain priced from 02/19/2014 until 02/19/2016 Set against the breathtaking beauty of Italy, The Echoes of Love is a passionate, heart-breaking romance to ignite the senses and rekindle your belief in the power of love. Seduction, passion and secrets... Venetia Aston-Montagu has escaped to Venice to work in her godmother's architectural practice, putting a lost love behind her. For the past ten years she has built a fortress around her heart, only to find the walls tumbling … [Read more...] about The Echoes of Love by Hannah Fielding
