13 Sunday Oct 2013
I will be going on a blog tour October 18-21 with b00kr3vi3w Tours.
The following blogs will be featuring Venice in the Moonlight. I will be giving away a $10 Amazon gift card and 3 copies of my book (reader’s choice of e-book or paperback). Stop by and check out some great blogs!
04 Friday Oct 2013
Posted in Venice
Tags
Authors, Carnival, Historical, Kindle, Love, Magic, Masks, New, Nook, Paperback, Romance, Steamy, Venice
I’m happy to announce the release of my latest historical romance, Venice in the Moonlight. I’d like to thank my editor Lorraine Fico-White and my graphic designer Lorie DeWorken – two ladies that were fantastic to work with. I couldn’t have done it without them! I’d also like to thank my sister who kept me writing with her demands for another chapter to read. Love you, Mary!
Venice in the Moonlight
A Story of Vengeance, Forgiveness, and Love
After her husband’s untimely demise, Marietta Gatti is banished from the family’s villa by her spiteful mother-in-law. She returns to her hometown of Venice and her only kin—a father she hasn’t spoken to since her forced marriage. Her hope of making amends is crushed when she learns she is too late, for he recently has died under suspicious circumstances. Grief-stricken, Marietta retraces her father’s last night only to discover someone may have wanted him dead—and she may be next. When the prime suspect turns out to be the father of the man she is falling in love with, Marietta risks her future happiness and her life to avenge the death of a man she once hated.
Elizabeth McKenna’s latest novel takes you back to eighteenth century Carnival, where lovers meet discreetly, and masks make everyone equal.
Ebook: $2.99 (US) at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Paperback: $6.99 (US) at CreateSpace
06 Wednesday Mar 2013
Posted in Characters, Venice
Tags
Name: Nico Foscari, future love interest of Marietta Gatti
Age: 25
Hair: Black, curly
Eyes: Green
Build: Above average height, chiseled like Michelangelo’s David
Nico grew up a member of one of Venice’s oldest ruling families. He lives with his parents and younger sister in a gothic palace on the Grand Canal. The family also owns a country villa near Padua. When he was sixteen, his eyesight began to fail. Currently, he sees shapes, but no details. He likens it to living in a cloud. If it weren’t for Raul Orlando, his manservant, Nico would be house bound.
Realizing Nico wouldn’t be able to run the family interests, his father turns cold and distant toward his only son. On the rare occasion that his father speaks to him, it always ends in a fight. Tired of feeling useless, Nico rebels, becoming the family’s black sheep. Nico has a reputation as a gambler, a womanizer, and a supporter of the Enlightenment movement, which annoys his father to no end, much to Nico’s amusement.
When he meets Marietta, he is frustrated by her lack of interest in him. He isn’t used to his charms being rebuffed so quickly. What starts as a challenge soon changes to much more. He realizes how much he wants Marietta to like him – the real him – not the gambler or the lover. She sparks inside him the desire to be a better person.
However, with his semi-blindness, he feels like half a man, unworthy of true love. Embarrassed by the white moons covering his pupils, he wears dark glasses that wrap around his eyes. Nico hears of a doctor in France who has developed a new surgical technique for curing cataracts, but his father refuses to pay “for false promises.” Nico must come to terms with his disability and learn to love himself before he can capture Marietta’s heart.
Elizabeth McKenna 