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    Italian Christmas Wedding
    Italian Christmas Wedding
    Italian Christmas Wedding
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    Italian Christmas Wedding

    By Helen Scott Taylor

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    The last place Gina wants to spend Christmas is on an isolated farm with a man who's immune to her charms!

    Third in a Christmas trilogy set in England, Naples, and the Amalfi coast

    One phone call and the threat that has hung over Gina Marin's head for six years becomes reality. Her Mafia ex is out of prison and on the hunt for her. She has to get out of Naples for a few weeks, and gorgeous Seth Trevathan offers her sanctuary at his farm.

    Gina entrances Seth. She is beautiful, vivacious and totally not his type. He's a country boy, ex-military, and used to getting his hands dirty. A fashionable, high-maintenance girlfriend is the last thing he wants. But he soon realizes Gina is not who he thought, and he's in danger of losing his heart.

    Other books in the Sweet Italian Christmas Series
    #1 Italian Christmas Proposal. Take a Christmas vacation in Italy and fall in love!
    #2 Italian Christmas Baby. Emily has everything ready for the birth of her baby--the only thing left to do is tell the father!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHelen Scott Taylor
    Release dateJun 18, 2015
    ISBN9781310397387
    Italian Christmas Wedding
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    Helen Scott Taylor

    Helen Scott Taylor's first novel, The Magic Knot, won the American Title contest in 2008, was a Golden Heart® finalist, and was chosen as one of Booklist's top ten romances of 2009. Since then, she has published other novels, novellas, and short stories in both the UK and USA. Her published works have been finalists in a number of contests including the Holt Medallion, the Lories, the Prism Contest, the Write Touch Award and the Maggies. Helen lives in South West England near Plymouth in Devon between the windswept expanse of Dartmoor and the rocky Atlantic coast. As well as her wonderful long-suffering husband, she shares her home with a Westie and an aristocratic chocolate-shaded-silver-burmilla cat who rules the household with a velvet paw. She believes that deep within everyone there's a little magic. www.helenscotttaylor.com

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    • 5/5
      What a delightful short romance story about a handsome retired Royal Marine and a beautiful Italian woman who are thrust together due to events in her life that require her to be whisked away from Italy for her protection by him and there they learn about each other and fall in love...

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    Italian Christmas Wedding - Helen Scott Taylor

    Italian Christmas Wedding

    By

    Helen Scott Taylor

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    Copyright © 2014 Helen Taylor

    Cover design © Helen Taylor

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    The right of Helen Taylor to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act, 1988.

    This is a work of fiction. All the characters in this book have no existence outside the imagination of the author, and have no relation whatsoever to anyone bearing the same name or names. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Copyright owner.

    Chapter One

    Seth Trevathan crouched and opened his arms as his giggling godson scampered towards him. Hey, Giorgio, what have you got there?

    The little boy snuggled close and handed Seth the soft toy monkey he'd just unwrapped for his first birthday.

    Seth held the toy at eye level and made a show of examining it. Wow, he's colorful. I've never seen a blue and red monkey before.

    Me, me. Giorgio grabbed the toy and dashed across the living room of his parents' villa towards his aunt Gina.

    "Ah, my bambino. What do you have to show me?" Tall and slim yet with curves in all the right places, Gina Marin folded her long legs and crouched, balancing on impossibly high heels as she held out her arms and caught Giorgio, kissing him and fussing over him.

    Seth straightened, crossed his arms, and leaned back against the railing of the covered veranda, enjoying the warm Italian sun on his back. In the distance, the Mediterranean gently lapped the pebbly beach of the Amalfi coast, such a change from the unruly Atlantic Ocean a mile from where he lived in Cornwall.

    It was a few weeks before Christmas and when he'd flown out of Gatwick Airport to come here for Giorgio's birthday, England had been in the grip of snow and ice. The mild Italian weather was a pleasant respite from the bitterly cold British December.

    Seth tried not to stare at Gina, but the vivacious Italian beauty drew his gaze. She talked a little too loudly, clearly wanting to be the center of attention. Dressed in designer clothes that probably cost a small fortune, she appeared to be the definition of high maintenance from her perfectly applied makeup to the tips of her scarlet fingernails.

    Despite that, she was the most beautiful woman Seth had ever met, with a cascade of thick black hair, laughing brown eyes, and a ready smile. No doubt, she could have any man she wanted, and she probably changed boyfriends as often as she changed her shoes. She was definitely not Seth's type, yet she attracted him like a kamikaze moth to a bonfire.

    Come here, Giorgi. Giorgio's six-year-old cousin, Violet, called him back to open some more presents.

    Giorgio trotted across the tile floor in his new blue shoes and plopped down on a mat beside the little girl.

    Seth watched with a smile as the lad unwrapped the plastic child's toolbox he'd bought him. In his opinion, it was never too early for a guy to learn how to fix things.

    Giorgio's eyes lit up as Violet helped him unlatch the box, and he dug through the plastic tools. Then he grabbed the hammer and whacked Violet on the arm with it.

    Oops, Seth whispered under his breath as all hell broke loose.

    Violet's very pregnant mother, Claire, hurried to her side as fast as her size would allow, and rubbed her daughter's arm as she cried.

    Giorgio's father, Savino, swept his son into his arms and relieved him of the offending toy, while Seth's cousin Emily came over with the cardboard carton that had contained his present and tapped a corner. The box says age three and up, Seth.

    Sorry. I thought it looked like a fun thing for a little boy. He was out of touch with kid's developmental stages. He only had a teenage daughter, and he'd been stationed overseas with the military for most of her early years.

    It is. Thank you. I'll put it away for a while until we think Giorgi is old enough to play with it safely.

    Obviously trying to soften the criticism, Emily pushed under Seth's arm and hugged him. I suppose I should be grateful you didn't buy him a gun.

    I'd never do that. Seth injected a hint of righteous indignation in his voice while making a mental note that guns were blacklisted.

    To show there were no hard feelings, Seth kissed the top of Emily's head. They were cousins, but she was more like a sister. Ever since her parents had died when she was four, he'd taken her under his wing.

    Emily wandered off to make peace with Violet's mother, and Seth sipped his cool lager, keeping out of the way. Most of the people here were Savino's relatives, and although they made an effort to speak English around him, they often forgot, so half the time he had no idea what they were talking about.

    While parents and grandparents fussed over the children, Seth's gaze returned to Gina. A musical riff sounded and she dug her phone out of her bag. As she checked the screen, a shadow passed across her face. Rising from her seat, she put the phone to her ear and strode out of the room.

    Seth rubbed a hand thoughtfully over his mouth. Boyfriend trouble probably. A woman as beautiful as Gina probably had a different man for every night of the week. Yep, Gina was most likely trouble with a capital T.

    Downing the last of his lager, Seth wandered through to the kitchen to grab another bottle from the fridge.

    At the sound of Gina's voice behind the kitchen door, he paused in the corridor. He didn't want to intrude on her private conversation, even though he had no idea what she was saying. He was about to return to the living room when her rushed, breathy tone stopped him.

    He might not understand the words, but he recognized the note of distress in her voice. He winced, not wanting to poke his nose in where it wasn't wanted, but he hated to hear a woman upset like that.

    With a sigh, he headed back towards the kitchen and put his head around the door. Gina had ended her conversation. She stood with her back to him, staring out of the kitchen window at the courtyard where the cars were parked, her arms wrapped around her middle.

    Gina, are you all right, love?

    For a few seconds she didn't respond, then she swiveled slowly to face him. Something terrible has happened.

    Perhaps her boyfriend had broken up with her. Is there anything I can do? Seth was wary of involving himself in her relationship problems, but he hated seeing this beautiful, vibrant woman so sad and defeated. Those luscious, smiling lips of hers were now pressed tight with misery.

    Will you get Savi or Leo for me?

    Of course.

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