Best friends Ashley and Juliet, who've been made redundant from their marketing jobs during Covid, at last get to go to Venice. The long days of lockdown were made a little easier by looking at webcams of the deserted city. One day, Ash spied a man walking his dog in Campo Santa Maria Formosa. What would happen if shewere to meet him for real?In Venice Jules hits it off with a handsome waiter, and both girls take the opportunity to think through big career changes, things otherwise don't go quite according to plan. And why is it that boring Joe from accounts keeps turning up where he's not supposed to be? Only, whoever falls in love with Venice won't stay boring for long, and Joe unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a trade in faked artworks.Coincidentally in Venice is a joyous celebration of love, friendship, vintage clothes to die for, Prosecco and spaghetti alle vongole. Oh, and not to mention a stolen gondola, a dog called Killer, ten thousand fictitious virgins and an old Grateful Dead t-shirt. Katherine Mezzacappa writes contemporary fiction under the pen name of Kate Zarrelli for Romaunce Books. Kate is Irish but now lives in Carrara in Northern Tuscany, between the Apuan Alps and the Tyrrhenian Sea, with her Italian husband and two teenage sons. She writes historical, erotic, feel-good and paranormal fiction, set all over Europe, and in her spare time volunteers with a used book charity of which she is a founder member.Under her own name her short fiction has been published by The Copperfield Review, Ireland's Own, Erotic Review, Henshaw Press and Severance Publications.Writing as Katie Hutton, her historical novel The Gypsy's Bride will be published by Bonnier Zaffre in 2020 with a sequel to follow in 2020.As Katherine Mezzacappa she is also a member of the Historical Novel Society (she reviews regularly for The Historical Novel Review) and of the Irish Writers Centre. She is represented by Annette Green Authors' Agency.
