We Danced in Venice

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>A vacation second-chance romance where love must survive the one thing Venice can't hide - the truth.</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pastry chef Cordelia Dyer and British historian Royce Brownell have escaped to Venice for two weeks in a private palazzo overlooking the Grand Canal. A holiday filled with gondola serenades candlelit dinners and a love that feels invincible until the past walks through the door.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Dr. Evie Lin reappears Royce's brilliant former student begins dismantling Cordelia's confidence in happily ever after: casual touches calculating words and a version of him that she doesn't recognize.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Soon charming Italian composer Lorenzo turns his attention toward Cordelia and Royce's jealousy surfaces in ways that threaten to prove Evie right. As trust crumbles and old wounds tear open both must face the fears they've been masking: Cordelia's terror of becoming her mother and Royce's guilt-driven need to save everyone but himself.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In a city built on water and illusion love must be fought for at a masquerade ball where the real masks finally come off.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>​​​​​​​</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Perfect for readers who love</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the emotional complexity of Mhairi McFarlane the sun-drenched tension of Annabel Monaghan's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Same Time Next Summer</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and the wit and warmth of Emily Henry's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Book Lovers</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p>