Curse...or blessing? Romero Dante had always been warned about the danger of The Inferno. After all, it creates an all-consuming, love-at-first-touch lust, which led to his mother's ruin...and Rom's birth. Now it strikes again and it's with the one woman Rom can't have-Julietta Bianchi, the fiancée of his best friend. Julietta will do whatever necessary to save her family from financial disaster, even marry a man she doesn't love. But days before her wedding is to take place, her heart is stolen-with a single touch. Now the two lovers must choose between honor...and each other. The story that sparked three generations of Inferno love affairs. A Dante Legacy novella featuring fan favorites, Primo and Nonna! Many readers of The Dante Legacy have written to tell me how much they love the Dantes and the various secondary characters featured along the way, particularly the family patriarch and matriarch. So, I thought I'd offer a surprise treat-the romance of Romero Dante and Julietta Bianchi, known to readers as Primo and Nonna. The story takes place in the small, fictitious village of Santa Lucia located among the grapevines of Tuscany, Italy. Though events unfold in the mid-1950s out of necessity-after all, Primo and Nonna are in their late 70s when they appear in The Dante Legacy-this tale is the type of timeless love story that could happen in any decade. So, meet Romero Dante, a man destined to become an internationally famous jeweler, and owner of the only mines in the world to possess fire diamonds. And meet Julietta, the woman who sparks The Inferno, the all-consuming, once-in-a-lifetime passion that occurs when Dante soul mates first join hands. Their road to happily-ever-after isn't an easy one. Not when Julietta is engaged to Romero's best friend. And not when Romero is the town bastard, the bad boy who good girls should avoid at all costs.... Other Books by Day Leclaire: The Dante Legacy: Dante's Dilemma, a Novella Forever Dante (Lucia's Story), Available November 28th The Wacky Women Series: Once Upon a Ghost Once Upon a Cowboy Once Upon a Time Once Upon a Jinx, Available November 1st Once Upon an Enchantment, Available November 29th The Sinful Secrets Series: Mail-Order Husband The Wedding Night, Coming in 2014 The Secret Baby, Coming in 2014 Mail-Order Wife, Coming in 2014 The Salvatore Brothers Series: Who's Holding the Baby (Luc's Story), Available September 27th Matteo, Coming in 2014 Nico (Nic), Coming in 2014 Dante, Coming in 2015 Gabriele (Gabe), Coming in 2015 Brando (Brand), Coming in 2015
About the Author: Meet Day Leclaire: Wacky comes naturally to Day Leclaire. It always has. Or maybe she's just a trouble magnet. Like the time she taught all the kids in her kindergarten class how to lock the bathroom stalls and slide out underneath. Or when she became the first kindergartner in the school's history to get suspended, after starting a glue war to the tune of one carpet, ten emergency haircuts, fifteen shirts, three pants, and two pairs of sneakers. Or was it three pairs of sneakers? Anyway, ten years later she came up with the bright idea to use her father's street motorcycle like a dirtbike and crashed it while attempting a spectacular jump over two logs, a lawn chair, her brother, and the family St. Bernard. Brutus survived. Her brother still has nightmares. The motorcycle was DOA. Day, only slightly bent, spindled, and mutilated, spent most of that year grounded. Then there were all the times she wrecked the family car. Her parents were not amused. The insurance adjuster was. Eventually, he started answering the phone, "So, what's she done now?" Nowadays, when Day isn't wondering if her driving record wasn't the impetus for the "Mayhem" commercials, she's loving her SPCA foster dogs and playing The Sims 3 obsessively. Day also writes with equal obsession, and loves to play god with the fabulous characters and settings she creates-all within the confines of her computer world, of course. Or so she claims... USA Today bestselling author, Day Leclaire is the author of more than 60 novels and is a three-time winner of both The Colorado Award of Excellence and The Golden Quill Award. She's won Romantic Times magazine's Career Achievement, and Love and Laughter awards, the Holt Medallion, the Booksellers Best Award, and has received an impressive eleven nominations for the romance industry's most prestigious award, Romance Writers of America RITA(c) Award. Day ended her twenty-four year run with Harlequin with the release of her 60th book and is now self-publishing romances which continue to touch the heart and make you care about her characters as much as she does. In Day's own words, "I adore writing romances, and can't think of a better way to spend each day."