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    Lovestruck in Italy (A Moonlight Love Match short romance)
    Lovestruck in Italy (A Moonlight Love Match short romance)
    Lovestruck in Italy (A Moonlight Love Match short romance)
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    Lovestruck in Italy (A Moonlight Love Match short romance)

    By Natalie G. Owens

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    ***Previously released as "Everything to Lose". Extensively revised, lengthened and edited***

    Lisbeth Marsh put her life on hold to support her man, setting aside her desire to build a family. But when the dream of everlasting love vanishes into thin air, she’s faced with the mistakes and prejudices of her choices.

    Dane Marsh is a proud man who spent years worshiping the gods of ambition, sacrificing his marriage in the process. Now that he knows what he's lost, will he have the courage to turn his life around?

    With a little meddling from Jeanette Lagrange of Moonlight Love Match, the two embark on a journey to face the ghosts of the past.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNatalie G. Owens
    Release dateAug 6, 2012
    ISBN9781476038643
    Lovestruck in Italy (A Moonlight Love Match short romance)
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    Natalie G. Owens

    Pink velvet and black lace. Light and darkness. A world of contrasts exists in Natalie’s stories because every rose has its thorn. Her favourite stories to write are romances with a dark edge featuring brooding heroes, strong heroines, an intriguing mystery, and a good dash of fantasy.Married, with one son, she now calls the beautiful island of Malta home after eleven good years in Atlanta, GA. As a professional editor and author, her days are always busy, but when she’s not working—or muttering to herself about her book plots like a batty old maid—she enjoys spending time with family and friends (both online and offline), sipping on a good shiraz, reading, cooking and entertaining, watching a good movie, travelling, and ogling shoe store displays. Most of all, she loves to meet and communicate with other authors and readers.Find out more about Natalie’s latest news and works in her monthly newsletter – http://eepurl.com/povjfYou can also find her here (she’s waiting to make new friends!):Website: www.nataliegowens.comFacebook profile page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563297082Facebook author page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Natalie-G-Owens-Author/24911987111Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/natalie_g_owensGoogle Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/1/115212743960662992349/postsPinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/nataliegowens/Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Natalie-G.-Owens/e/B007N4UHJ0iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/natalie-g.-owens/id550919854Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4527498-natalie-g-owens

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      Lovestruck in Italy (A Moonlight Love Match short romance) - Natalie G. Owens

      LOVESTRUCK IN ITALY

      A Moonlight Love Match Short Romance

      By

      NATALIE G. OWENS

      Pride … and Prejudice … and Divorce …

      Moonlight Love Match Series:

      Lovestruck In Italy

      Lisbeth Marsh put her life on hold to support her man, setting aside her desire to build a family. But when the dream of everlasting love vanishes into thin air, she’s faced with the mistakes and prejudices of her choices. 

      Dane Marsh is a proud man who spent years worshiping the gods of ambition, sacrificing his marriage in the process. Now that he knows what he's lost, will he have the courage to turn his life around? 

      With a little meddling from Jeanette Lagrange of Moonlight Love Match, the two embark on a journey to face the ghosts of the past.

      In This Series

      Match In Malta

      Coming Soon

      Stranded In New York

      Delayed In London

      Tangled In Paris

      This book is an original publication of Natalie G. Owens.

      www.nataliegowens.com

      Copyright © 2011-2016 Rose of Atlantis Press, LLC

      All Rights Reserved.

      Smashwords Edition

      PUBLISHED BY

      Rose of Atlantis Press, LLC

      via

      Smashwords

      Cover Art by Zee Monodee

      Stock Art: Depositphotos

      Edited and formatted by Zee Monodee

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic format without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. Purchase only authorized editions. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

      Names, characters and incidents depicted in this book are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of the author or the publisher.

      CONTENTS

      Prologue

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Excerpt from Stranded In New York, Moonlight Love Match #3

      Also by Natalie G. Owens

      About the Author

      Dedication

      To all couples,

      so they can remember how love is a wild animal

      that can seldom be tamed.

      Acknowledgements

      Thank you, Laura Luzi, for refreshing my memories of your beautiful Ascoli Piceno.

      Prologue

      A message from Jeanette Lagrange, founder of Moonlight Love Match:

      As I’ve always maintained, love is often brought about by happenstance. It is no rocket science, but it has to do with nature, intuition, and people being at the same place at the right time. There could also be a little meddling involved, of course. *smile* For Cupid to strike, sometimes Fate needs a little nudge. After all, we can only succeed through helping ourselves first and then, by experiencing a little luck.

      So many claim that finding Mr. or Mrs. Right is like searching for a needle in a haystack. I believe it’s all a matter of perspective. The process could be easy or it could be difficult—and here is where someone like me could move matters along a tad.

      Why do people find love such a tricky, daunting thing? Mind you, when I say ‘finding love,’ I don’t necessarily mean a new feeling or something we’ve never experienced in the past. Sometimes, we’ve already been there—felt that odd flutter in our belly, seen the stars in our eyes, been awed by someone’s presence and voice so much, we couldn’t let go.

      Then, somehow, at some point down the line, things fall apart. Relationships that once held so much promise crumble to dust. Where once there was love, there is now bitterness, resentment, and regret. We become cynical and tell ourselves, Never again! We embrace loneliness, as much as it pains us and overwhelms us in certain moments. Suddenly, we’re not our carefree, confident selves anymore. We become this new person we have to come to grips with. And through it all, we tell ourselves we’re better off.

      And sometimes, we truly are. Some relationships were never meant to be. Yet, others…

      All in all, though, how can we impose our will on life? How can we tell ourselves we’ll never go down a certain road again? Put limitations on our emotions? If we live by reason alone, perhaps—but we’re only human, aren’t we?

      What we can do is to figure out where we’ve been so we can more clearly see where we wish to go. There is always hope, always a chance to find connection again, if we leave ourselves open.

      Sometimes, also, life gives us second chances, and when those happen, we need to decide: will we be ready to go for it again, to take the risk, or shall we allow pride to steal the opportunity to create a fresh, renewed connection with the person we’ve greatly cherished in the past?

      We can let go or hold on. The choice is ours.

      But if we let our heart and intuition show us the way, we would rarely be wrong.

      Yours,

      Jeanette

      Chapter One

      Dane.

      Lisbeth Marsh, brand-spanking-new divorcee, gaped at her ex-husband who stood uncertainly on her doorstep.

      He’d showed up just as she was about to wind down and settle with a bowl of chicken and rice salad and an action movie. Standing there, he looked about as out of place as a ghost at a gathering of skeptics.

      She clutched the side of the front door, a conscious action that set tiny tingling fires on the underside of her fingers. Blood rushed to her hand as she pressed the tense digits on the rigid wood, wanting nothing more than to break it into splinters and

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