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Set mainly in Venice:
ENCHANTMENT IN VENICE Silhouette Special Edition 1984
VIRTUE AND VICE Silhouette Romance 1985
SEDUCED BY INNOCENCE: Silhouette Special Edition 1994
CHRISTMAS IN VENICE Harlequin Romance 2002
THE VENETIAN PLAYBOY’S BRIDE Harlequin Romance 2003
A FAMILY FOR KEEPS Harlequin Romance 2005
With scenes in Venice:
THE ITALIAN MILLIONAIRE’S MARRIAGE Harlequin Romance 2003
THE TUSCAN TYCOON’S WIFE Harlequin Romance 2003
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Get away from the center and you find hundreds of tiny alleys, where you can either walk or park your boat. Washing is strung across the street, or even across canals, in neighborly fashion. Venice does everything its own way. The undertaker is on the water, so is the fire station.
This picture is a memory of the day I met my husband. I’d been for a gondola ride, and I left the gondola there, at those steps in a tiny side canal just behind St. Mark’s Square. Going through the archway I went upstairs to one of Venice’s famous glass factories, where he happened to be working at the time. The rest is history.
In the centre is a vaporetto, one of the boats which ply the canal, zig-zagging across from side to side, in both directions. This makes the journeys very, very interesting.
When I came to write WEDDING IN VENICE (Harlequin on-line read) I let my hero live in this lovely place. |
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There
are no motor vehicles here. So everyone walks or takes boats, and this
little city is pleasant and civilized as nowhere else. 
The
picture of the Grand Canal was taken before the day’s tremendous
bustle started.
If
Venetians want to extend their homes they build upwards. Some friends
built a terrace at the top of their building, and I took this picture from
there. It’s quite an experience, as there are no buildings in between to
shield you when the bell rings. The noise is shattering and you just have
to cling on until the vibrations stop.