Dreaming of Venice

by Dreaming of Venice (retail) (epub)

  ‘There’s something I’ve got to tell you.’ He sounded unexpectedly hesitant. ‘Three days ago, in the Accademia, the strangest thing happened when I saw you, Penny. It’s never happened to me before. The very first moment I set eyes on you, the very first glimpse I had of you as I came into that room, I just knew somehow.’ He paused and she felt him take a deep breath. ‘Like I say, it’s something I’ve never encountered before. The only way I can explain it is that it was love at first sight. Yes, I know, ridiculous, isn’t it? But that’s the only way I can describe it.’ He paused again. ‘This is the moment you burst out laughing.’

  She raised her face towards him, his eyes shining back at her in the light reflected off the glass of the window.

  ‘Love at first sight? No, I’d never dream of laughing at something as serious as that.’

  Acknowledgements

  A big thank you to Fiona Wilson, book reviewer extraordinaire, for reading this book and encouraging me.

  Warmest thanks, also, to Michael Bhaskar at Canelo for believing in me as a writer.

  First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Canelo

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  Copyright © T.A. Williams, 2017

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  ISBN 9781911420927

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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