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Three years ago, Kieran Mullen was a carefree, confident beauty. One fateful night, everything changed, and she became solitary and aloof, reluctant to leave her London home even when her brother, Rogan, insists she accompany him on holiday to Venice. There, amid the wild revelries of Carnivale, Kieran is attached by a masked villain and recused by a charismatic stranger who offers the one thing that might free her from her haunting past: revenge . . .Matteo de Gama is a study in contradiction-a gambler and a philosopher, a reckless libertine and a most unlikely saviour. When he pulls Kieran from a canal's watery depths and learns her secrets, he resolves to help her exact justice. But soon he has another mission in mind-to release the unmistakable fire buried beneath her icy beauty, and teach her the bliss that comes with trusting in her own desires, and in their fierce, abiding love . . .
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Three years after Samuel Ellsworth destroyed her life, Kieran Mullen unexpectedly runs into the one man who can help her when Matteo de Gama rescues her from almost drowning in one of Venice's canals. Matteo offers to teach Kieran everything she needs to know about the Italian art of vendetta, but Kieran is reluctant to accept the offer of his services, since Matteo's sizzlingly sexy kisses threaten to melt the icy reserve that Kieran used to keep her life from falling apart. As Kieran gets closer to putting her plan of revenge into motion, however, much to her surprise, she finds herself wondering if repaying Ellsworth for what he did will be worth the risk of losing Matteo's love. MacNish's lushly written, lusciously passionate Georgian historical, which is loosely linked to her earlier book Veiled Desires (2006), will delight readers with its intriguing mix of danger, deception, and desire.--Charles, John Copyright 2008 Booklist