Interlude

SHE WAS A FOOL TO FALL IN LOVE

Fate played a cunning trick on tourist journalist Meg Brown. Because of a dizzying series of mishaps in romantic Venice, she found herself entangled with the most stunningly attractive man she'd ever met. Marco Montevalde was dashing, cosmopolitan, gracious, gentle...and so seductive!

Had the light been so golden, the air so wonderful, the canals so breathtaking before? Venice became a paradise of sensuous pleasure, Marco's arms a haven of delight.

It couldn't last, Meg knew Her reality, half a world away, could never include moonlight and gondolas -- or Marco's ardent kisses....