"It is your choice," he said, stepping so close to me that our lips were almost touching. "Either do what I say - or get another job." My heart stood still as I gazed up into his deep, dark, dangerous eyes... In a world where women's only role in life is to sit at home and look pretty, Lilly is determined to fight for her freedom. There's only one problem: a powerful man blocking her way.

The youngest female billionaire in the world... 3 eligible bachelors... From Venice, Italy to Hollywood Hills... VANESSA HOLDOM is twenty-nine, confident, sexy and filthy rich. She's got it all...until her perfect life is ruined by her cheating fiancé, Aiden Carlisle. Devastated and humiliated, she runs away to Venice to mend her broken heart and dodge the paparazzi. There, she meets a penniless and recently widowed gondolier named Marco Romano, and his daughter, Adelina. What begins as a few simple gestures of kindness soon turns into a torrid love affair that changes Vanessa's life in the most unpredictable way. Love Affair in Venice details a headstrong woman's turbulent emotional journey towards self-fulfillment. From the canals and piazzas of Venice, Italy to her luxurious estate in Hollywood Hills, follow Vanessa Holdom as she braves the most challenging year of her life. Filled with unexpected heartbreak and scandalous intrigue, this book will make you hold your breath until the very last page. Contains a few chapters with 17+ sexual content. The rest of the book is PG-13. ~Buy your own copy at all major ebook retailers!~ *This is the unedited first draft* ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Copyright 2020 Jackie Wang

Highest Rank: #1 in Romance, #1 - painting, #1 - heartbreaker, #1 - one-sidedlove, #1 - unrequitedlove, #1 - engagement *********************** Still not satisfied with our physical contact, he leaned his face down to meet mine as his fingers gripped my chin. "Fiancée?" he asked, whispering the word. I nodded as the tension I felt from our body contact got even more intense. I stared at his handsome face. "You claim yourself my fiancée?" I nodded again. Of course, I was his fiancée and I'd claim that title no matter what. "Let's see if you really are," he whispered slowly in between his breathing. His tone broadcasted danger and it made me shudder. "A fiancée can kiss her man. Now, let's see if you can---" And with that, in just a heartbeat, he pressed his lips against mine. *********************** He is my one great love. I've loved and adored him since I laid my eyes on him and to be his wife is my life's absolute dream. But he hates me. He has hated me since the day he first saw me and he makes it sure that breaking my heart and pushing me away will be his greatest achievement. In spite of all the drama, the pain and the heartbreak he caused me, I still insist to be engaged to him --- this cold, aloof, and heartless man. Yes, he is my one great love. But he is my one great challenge as well. Will I be able to create a heart in my heartless heartbreaker? (Cover made by @itsmyaah) Copyright © HervinaMollejon™ 2015-2016 All rights reserved.