With her livelihood hanging in the balance, single mom and restaurateur Victoria Heart has one choice—a shocking proposal from arrogant hotelier Antonio Cavelli: he'll secure her future but take her freedom! Antonio has no time or want for love, but it is expected he will marry and produce children. A convenient wife would suit him perfectly—especially one with a ready-made heir! But Victoria's body responds so willingly to his slightest touch—he's not sure how long their arrangement will stay strictly business!
Walk down the altar or dieIf it were up to me, the choice would be easyDieBut I have to live. I won't let my son be raised by the devil that killed his father.Enzio Lanza owns my dead husband's life. He even has his face.My husband's twin killed his own brother and inherited his kingdom, his wife and child included.I will marry the monster that ripped my family and heart apartI will teach my boy how to finish what his father started before he was shot by his own twin brotherWe will have our revenge, one kill at a timeI'll leave Enzio Lanza to the end, and I won't make it quick.The Italian Marriage is a forbidden dark Italian Mafia arranged marriage standalone.Get your copy of this revenge enemies to lovers mafia romance now.Because you have to.
Real Housewives of New Jersey star Melissa Gorga shows you how to love your man and keep him happy, satisfied, faithful, and devoted to you. What you see is what you get with Melissa Gorga. On Real Housewives of New Jersey, she's that beautiful, ambitious woman with a successful career who puts her family first. In fact, her stable yet sexy marriage to lovable Joe is a welcome antidote to the constant fighting and backbiting on the show. Despite the pressure of life in the spotlight, she makes marriage look easy. How does she do it? Melissa's overriding principle: Treat your husband like a king! And in return, you'll be treated like a queen! In Love Italian Style, Melissa shares her (and his) secrets to relationship success—generations-tested old-fashioned values served up with a modern, sexy twist. To her, the four tenets to a happy marriage are respect, honesty, loyalty, and passion (underscore passion). By sharing her and Joe's life together—from the story of their first date to how they still keep it hot in the bedroom a decade later—Melissa admits that, yes, marriage has been a lot of work, but the rewards are ten-fold. With her time-tested strategies, you can "Gorganize" your own relationship, strengthen your bond, and amp up the passion for lifelong bliss. Some of Melissa's how-to's: · Dress to impress your man. · Flirt with your hubby. · Cook Italian style. · Fight right. · Keep the romance alive and the home fires burning. · Raise little princes and princesses. This playful guidebook promises to make any marriage better—the Gorga way!
He has every reason to hate her... Millionaire Italian Ettore Severini was ready to marry--until he learned that Sophie Lang's innocent sensuality disguised a petty thief! No reason to trust her... When Ettore saw Sophie again, she was living in desperate poverty--with a baby. She denied the child was Ettore's--but then she denied the theft, too.... And the best reason to marry her! Ettore had never forgotten her. Now marriage would bring him his son...revenge...and Sophie, at his mercy!
Two feuding families, two love stories - and a lot of delicious Italian food. Pieta Martinelli's sister is getting married. Since she is a bridal designer it falls to her to make the wedding gown. But Pieta is distracted by a series of unanswered questions. Why is her father feuding with another Italian in the neighbourhood? Why is her mother so faded and sad? And could the man she's always held a torch for really be getting married to someone else? As Pieta stitches and beads her sister's wedding gown she uncovers the secrets that have made her family what it is and that stand between her and happiness. THE ITALIAN WEDDING is a feast of food and love. It's about discovering who your parents really are. And who you really want to be.
Weddings in 15th-century Italian courts were grand, sumptuous affairs, often requiring guests to listen to lengthy orations given in Latin. D'Elia shows how Italian humanists used these orations to support claims of legitimacy and assertions of superiority among families jockeying for power, as well as to advocate for marriage and sexual pleasure.
An offer to mend their marriage - or end it? After years without contact, glamorous film star Gina Moretti is stunned when billionaire businessman Massimo Conti stalks back into her life, demanding her help. Their short-lived marriage was a mistake she's striving to put behind her. The last thing she needs is to open old wounds, no matter how insistent Massimo is. Especially since he's still devastatingly dangerous to her emotions. But Massimo has confronted the inescapable truth - that the only woman in the world he wants is his estranged wife! He concocts a daring scheme to get her back. His plan might be underhanded, it might be brazenly manipulative, but he refuses to take no for an answer. His outrageous ploy must succeed. For the alternative is to lose Gina forever.
She kicked me in the nuts at her sister's wedding. I vowed to make her my bride. I'm a man who gets what he wants. No matter what it takes. Punto. And I want Nicky Baldi. The only woman who said no to me. The forced to become Mafia princess who hates our kind. The firecracker that thinks she can burn me away. She tries to play me, but she doesn't know what she's up against. I'm Domenico Lanza, little kitten. Wait until you get a taste of what The Italian Dom can do to you...and your body. And when she learns I'm the only winner in our hate game When she submits to me, the only man she'll ever beg and purr under, I'll give her everything But first...revenge is in order. The Italian Dom is an enemies to lovers, age gap, forced marriage Mafia Romance. If you loved Enzio or Tino, you'll love Domenico, too. Read now! P.S. This is Nicky and Dom's book. You don't have to read The Italian Obsession (Tino and Angel's book) first unless you want to avoid spoilers. The Italian Dom ends on a cliffy and the story concludes in The Italian Son. Read the complete series now.
A masterpiece of literary memory—a powerful exploration of the intersections of family, history, and memory "One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father." So begins the passionate and stormy union of Mikhail Kamenetzki, aka Ugo Stille, one of Italy's most celebrated journalists, and Elizabeth Bogert, a beautiful and charming young woman from the Midwest. The Force of Things follows two families across the twentieth century—one starting in czarist Russia, the other starting in the American Midwest—and takes them across revolution, war, fascism, and racial persecution, until they collide at mid-century. Their immediate attraction and tumultuous marriage is part of a much larger story: the mass migration of Jews from fascist-dominated Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. It is a micro-story of that moment of cross-pollination that reshaped much of American culture and society. Theirs was an uneasy marriage between Europe and America, between Jew and WASP; their differences were a key to their bond yet a source of constant strife. Alexander Stille's The Force of Things is a powerful, beautifully written work with the intimacy of a memoir, the pace and readability of a novel, and the historical sweep and documentary precision of nonfiction writing at its best. It is a portrait of people who are buffeted about by large historical events, who try to escape their origins but find themselves in the grip of the force of things.
