Lagoon Lure
What
Happens In Venice
Book
Two
Diana
Cachey
ISBN-13: 978-1500334529
ISBN-10: 1500334529
LCCN: 2014911793
Number of pages: 160
Word Count: 40,000
Tagline:
As Interpol expert Louisa
Mangotti is learning, ghosts watch over Venice. Can she trust them—or her
ex-lover—when spirits offer confusing clues to solve a double murder in this
sexy paranormal mystery?
Book
Description:
Lagoon Lure resumes the story of
Interpol expert Louisa Mangotti’s Venetian exploits and the paranormal assisted
murder investigation she began in Love Spirits.
Still unnerved by the notion that
Venetian ghosts are real, Louisa delves further into the deaths of two
glassmakers while juggling the lustful manipulations of her ex-lover, Matteo,
whose role in the murders grows murkier.
Meanwhile Louisa's usually shy
sister, Barbara, explores her newfound sexuality with Venice's willing men,
sharing her adventures with her sister but keeping one particularly mysterious
man a secret.
When Louisa's best friend,
"Rouge," arrives for Carnival to sample its masked men, she
complicates the situation further by encouraging the sisters to embrace the
pleasures of Venice.
Paranormal clues and apparitions
lead Louisa deeper into the lagoon and she is forced to reluctantly enlist
Matteo’s support. Can she trust him, or will this ghostly lagoon lure prove
deadly?
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Cover Copy:
Venice has its ghosts. They haunt
its byways and canals. They linger on its numerous bridges and waft through its
beautiful architecture—and they've taken a definite interest in Interpol expert
Louisa Mangotti.
In Lagoon Lure, Louisa continues
investigating the murder of two glassmakers she began in Love Spirits. Guided
by clues sent from otherworldly sources, she struggles to determine what role
her seductive ex-lover Matteo played in the deaths, constantly tempted by his
handsome looks, his charm, and the volatile chemistry between them.
While Louisa is led by the ghosts
to a sunken ship in the murky lagoon, her sister, Barbara, and best friend,
"Rouge," embark on their own carnal explorations of Venice, sampling
the men who flock to Carnival.
Amid corruption, conspiracy, and
Venice's legendary sexual energy, it's all Louisa can do to think straight, let
alone untangle this web of mystery. The ghosts, however, want her to persevere.
EXCERPT
#1 (393 words):
Venice always delivered. For thousands
of years she spread out her bounty for swarms of people who feasted upon her
beauty. They stayed in ornate palaces or luxury hotels and paraded in stylish
fashions. They admired diverse art, listened to sweet music, sampled delicious
food.
They also
enjoyed plentiful romantic opportunities.
Ah, the romantic
allure of Venice. It continues to this day. Indeed, soon after Barbara’s
arrival, Venice offered her no less than three handsome men. Now there stood
her sister, Louisa, who begged to hear the dirt on two of them but knew nothing
of the third man, the one Barbara wanted most.
She planned to keep him a secret.
Barbara looked
around and tried to take it all in, all that Venice had to offer. She saw in
front of her a small island, which sat placidly in the lagoon and proudly
displayed its huge monastic bell tower. Although a massive presence, this tower
was easily dwarfed by the one it faced -- the more famous one -- the one that
housed the bells of San Marco. She gazed across the water, let the reflecting
sun’s rays warm her face and both Venetian towers began to toll their bells
behind her and before her. They echoed across the lagoon, reverberated
throughout the tranquil setting. Barbara took note of the bells. She’d been
trained by her Italian friends to pay particular attention to what she’d been
the thinking in that precise moment these bells began to chime.
She’d been
thinking about secrets. That third man. He must remain her secret.
Thus began her
diversion, a long philosophical theory about her twin orange cats.
“Back home in
Seattle,” she said, “my cats confuse and distract me during morning meditation,
just like those two Venetian men did my first night in Venice. The two
inquisitive cats circle my cushion then jump on the table where I offer
blessings of flowers and candy. They sniff and inspect as if they’ve never seen
the ritual before.”
Louisa
yawned.
“Those cats seem
to see me anew each day, as a thing they need to supervise, approve or inspect.
Eventually, they settle nearby to meditate on their own. They observe my
struggle to quiet my mind while they remain perfect little meditators. Those
two Venetian men were the same. While I was nervous and disquieted, they just
purred.”
Louisa frowned.
Rouge, now
turned Cleopatra, was soon ready for the ball.
Love Spirits
Love Spirits
What
Happens In Venice
Book
One
Diana
Cachey
Genre: Romance/paranormal.
ISBN: 1481031767
ISBN: 9781481031769
Number of pages: 160
Word Count: 40,000
Tagline: Among the romantic canals of Venice—and oh so many Italian
distractions—can a stunning American lawyer and her psychic sister help the
Ghosts of Venice solve a hushed-up crime?
Book Description:
Louisa Mangotti is a gorgeous
American lawyer and Interpol expert who, after being offered a job working with
the international crime unit in Venice, receives a mysterious postcard from the
Venetian Ghosts, the ancient protectors of the Republic. But Louisa assumes her
bad-boy ex, Matteo, sent it in a quixotic attempt to gain her attention. Louisa may have dismissed the ghosts, but the
ghosts aren’t quite done with her.
When the bodies of two
glassmakers wash up on Murano Island, the cryptic messages persist.
Reluctantly, Louisa calls upon Matteo to help decipher the clues. And before
she knows it, a flame that was never fully extinguished is rekindled. Sensing that her sister is in over her head,
Barbara Mangotti rushes to the rescue, only to be lured away by two handsome
Venetian men.
With time running out, can the
two beauties solve a crime that could threaten the city of Venice itself?
Keywords: Chick lit mystery,
Venice fiction, Ghosts of Venice, Paranormal mystery, Contemporary women novels
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Trailers:
Love Spirits -- Take One http://video214.com/play/t6LZ8mFclEqpBCQlb11gGw/s/dark
Love Spirits -- ghost story http://video214.com/play/R71iLBUayFB0CJEg02UFkg/s/dark
What Happens In Venice -- A Trinity
Book One, Love Spirits
Book Two, Lagoon Lure
Book Three, Magic Island
Excerpt
#1 (325 words):
From the Top of
Our Great Bell Tower Saint Mark Square Venice, Italy
Dear wide-eyed
tourist, Don’t go to Venice.
But if you do,
don’t fall in -- in a canal, in love or into Venice itself. As if you have a
choice. Hear us cackling?
Listen. We came
to warn you about La Serenissima, the Most Serene One, as Venice has been
called since before the Middle Ages. You will not heed our warning and you will
come looking for us. How do we know? It happens every time a Venetian ghost
story is told.
As ancient
protectors of the Venetian republic, we ghosts guard her virtues of which she
has many. One reason we love her, and you will too, is that she is stuck in
time. Did you know Venice functions without motorcars or trucks? We don’t like
motorcars or trucks. Hundreds of tiny islands sewn together by foot bridges
leaves no need for noisy, fume-spewing vehicles, thankfully.
We prefer
floating.
Our classic
transport is the gondola. Mostly reserved for you tourists now, gondolas are
and always have been helmed by the most prestigious oarsmen in the world --
highly trained gondoliers who stand while rowing through the labyrinth of
canals. They don’t mind when we ride with or without you while they serenade us
with opera, Frank Sinatra songs and romantic favorites.
Ah yes, romance.
As one visitor put it, “It’s their schtick, a Venetian ploy, an act to get sexy
with you.” It is true. Venice equals romance equals sex.
If the shadows
of Venice frighten you or you feel like you’re in a dream, have fun with it,
float with us. We are watching over you. We want to further your journey to a
more magical life because we think a person is charmed by a trip to La
Serenissima.
It could change
your soul forever. Just ignore this cautionary tale. We remain in your service, The Venetian
Ghosts.
About
the Author:
Diana Cachey is a licensed
attorney, published academic, and former adjunct law professor. She also holds
a BA in English, and while in law school, she was the first female
editor-in-chief of her university's law review.
The author of the novels Love
Spirits and Lagoon Lure, Cachey trained with several New York Times
best-selling writers whose sales total more than 70 million books. She has
built a social media platform with over one hundred thousand Twitter users, and
her popular YouTube channel featuring secret Venice locations has received over
five hundred thousand views.
For more than a decade, Cachey
has traveled to Venice, the setting of her novels, on extended trips several
times a year. The cafés, restaurants, and many other haunts of Venice play a
prominent role in her sexy paranormal mystery-romance series about a beautiful
American lawyer guided by the Ghosts of Venice in the investigation of a
hushed-up crime.
@dianacachey
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