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Tavonesi #7
Pamela Aares
Releasing Sept 10th, 2015
A one-night stand brought Natasha Raley the greatest gift of her life—her son. She wants to give him a better life than she had, but a gambling bet lands both of them in a homeless shelter. When the shelter director gives her a ticket to a masquerade ball, Natasha finds herself dancing with the most intriguing and mysterious man she’s ever met.
Adrian Tavonesi is creating a paradise on earth in Sonoma California, determined to be worthy of his vast fortune by making the world a better place. Convinced women only like him for his money and his status, he invents an anonymous relationship with the beautiful Natasha to create a dream world for both of them.
As passion flares into an all-consuming affair, the lies Adrian and Natasha have told each other threaten to ruin everything. Adrian is kind, generous, and sincere—Natasha knows he would be the ideal father for her son. But will her past and the devastating gamble she once made destroy her new world? Or will betting on the truth this time lead to the perfect, ever-lasting love?
Tasha was more beautiful
than Adrian remembered.
And just as skittish.
Whatever she was hiding, the continued
anonymity she was proposing suited him just fine. He liked the idea of being
seen as an everyday man, just another guy living in Sonoma. And he liked a
woman who could ask for what she wanted.
“I’ll play,” Adrian answered. “But just
exactly what rules are you suggesting we follow?”
He had to admit her proposal added an
edge of raciness to the day, an edge of challenge and the allure of fantasy.
Maybe she wasn’t afraid, as he’d first thought she was. And maybe, like him,
she too wanted to be liked for who she was in this time. In this moment.
In Rome, almost everyone he ran into knew
he was from one of the oldest Roman families. They knew his cousins and cousins
of cousins. Knew of the vast Tavonesi wealth. When he first moved to the Bay
Area with his father and siblings, he’d loved that they’d all had a degree of
anonymity.
But now that he’d started to revamp the vineyard,
in the Napa and Sonoma circles he traveled, he’d lost the privacy of those
early days. His worth, his prospects, his heritage were on the surface, easy
for anyone with a computer to access. Though notoriety came with success, with
moving forward with his plans, he resented the assumptions and prejudices that
accompanied the details of his life, as though a map of his past set out every
possibility for his future. He was charting new waters and didn’t want to be
bound by history or prejudice or presumptions. His sisters Zoe and Amber had
cut themselves free and were pursuing their dreams. And so were his American
cousins Alex and Alana.
But what he disliked most about his
wealth was the feeling of being targeted. Of being a catch. Wealth drew people to
him; that was another fact of his life. But he didn’t want to be seen through
that lens, to be pursued for his bank account. Wealth made it hard to know whom
to trust. Especially when it came to women.
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Her popularity as a romance writer continues to grow with each new book release, so much so, that the Bay area author has drawn comparisons by reviewers to Nora Roberts.
Pamela Aares writes romance books that she loves reading, particularly those that entertain, transport and inspire dreams while captivating and tugging at the heart. She takes her readers on a journey with complex characters in both contemporary and historical settings who are thrown in situations that tempt love, adventure and self-discovery.
Before becoming a romance author, Aares wrote and produced award-winning films including Your Water, Your Life, featuring actress Susan Sarandon and NPR series New Voices, The Powers of the Universe and The Earth’s Imagination.
If not behind her computer, you can probably find her reading a romance novel, hiking the beach or savoring life with friends. You can visit Pamela on the web at http://www.PamelaAares.com.
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