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The Italian Affair
A lost brother, a new romance … and an ancient evil
Lisa has come to Italy in obedience to her mother’s dying request to find her half-brother. So she arrives at the Villa Como – and around her neck is the gold locket her mother told her to wear, always.
The villa is now a tourist hotel run by Contessa Menotti and her daughter-in-law, but there is no one who could possibly be Lisa’s brother. The only clue is an oil painting of a young boy she discovers in the closed wing of the house.
Attractive fellow-American Scott Anderson has a secret, too, and when she confronts him he confesses that he is looking for his friend Tony Menotti, who disappeared from Paris weeks ago and who, he says, bears a remarkable resemblance to Lisa herself.
Lisa desperately wants to trust Scott, but can she be sure he is really on her side…?
181 pages.
Villa Fontaine
“I’ve only known Jacques three weeks, but this is it Janice, The Real Thing. Cancel that tour and fly out to stay with us at Jacques’s villa.’
Just as Janice Carleton is about to leave on a two-week European holiday she receives a letter from her sister Holly. In a matter of weeks, Holly has fallen in love with and married a Frenchman, Jacques Manet. Intrigued, Janice cancels her tour and flies to visit the couple in Marseilles.
However, when Janice arrives at the Villa Fontaine the only person to greet her is Jacques’s mother, Stephanie, who is adamant that Holly’s story is a fabrication. Janice waits at the villa in the hope that her sister will turn up, but when her own life is threatened she realizes that both she and Holly have stumbled into dangerous territory.
Seeking the help of an American journalist, Neil Grant, who is searching for Jacques, Janice determines to find her sister. In a race against time, she sets out to uncover the secret of Villa Fontaine.
190 pages.
Paperback, in very good preloved condition with the exception of an initial on the first page.