A Venetian Vow
(Gilded Age Belles Romance)
When New York banking heiress Cora Hobart accidentally leaves her scrapbook behind in a gondola, she’s devastated. A year of sketches, secrets, and unfiltered thoughts, gone adrift on the Grand Canal. The journal was meant for her future self—a record of adventures, a chronicle of a life worth remembering. Losing it in Venice, just as she’s beginning to find her voice, feels like losing part of herself.
Ethan, Baron Rockliffe, never planned to read a stranger’s diary. Yet burdened by scandal, mounting debts, and the cost of shielding his exiled brother, he opens A Year in the Life of Miss Coralie Hobart, 1897 and is captivated. Cora’s voice is full of honesty and wonder. Her words guide him through the city as he learns to see Venice through her eyes.
When they finally meet, Cora is torn between gratitude and fury. Lord Rockliffe returned her journal, but not before reading every word! When it’s stolen again, this time, the cost is far greater than wounded pride. As an extortion plot threatens to expose her most private thoughts, Cora must choose whether to protect her heart—or entrust it to the one man who knows her best, line by line.