Elisabetta's father had walked out when she was a small child. She did not remember him. So why should he leave her everything he had, including a Venetian palace? She was a successful journalist, had a rich, handsome man in love with her, and did not need her father's money or the Sicilian who brought such trouble to her life. Richard Filippetti was not only her father's lawyer, he was her father's stepson and he knew too much about Elisabetta for her comfort. Richard, too, had mysteries in his life which could only be solved in the warm days of springtime Venice. Elisabetta knew that she must leave him before she fell in love and made herself as vulnerable as her mother had been.
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