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    Quaranta: Love and Passion triumphs over Death
    Quaranta: Love and Passion triumphs over Death
    Quaranta: Love and Passion triumphs over Death
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    Quaranta: Love and Passion triumphs over Death

    By Marianna S. Rachid

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    Isabella and Federico’s love was about to be consummated when that dream is shattered by treachery and deceit from within and without. Old familial hatred resurges and the black death deals a fatal blow. Will their love survive human failings and the force of nature?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarianna
    Release dateMay 9, 2018
    Quaranta: Love and Passion triumphs over Death

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      Quaranta - Marianna S. Rachid

      Quaranta

      By

      Marianna Rachid

      ACKNOWLEGEMENTS

      This book could not have been written without the guidance and generosity of many people. Foremost, my parents who encouraged me on the path of this project. My partner, who was helpful beyond measure. And all of you whose friendship kept this boat sailing.

      Disclaimer

      This is a work of fiction. The characters and incidences are purely of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead is completely coincidental.

      Quaranta

      Copyright © 2018 by Marianna Rachid

      All rights are retained by the author. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. The unauthorized reproduction, sharing or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to five years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.

      Chapter 1

      I will have you splayed, quartered and your remains fed to the pigs! Bellowed Enzio at Gerome. His rage was as black as thunder and in this state which was quite often these past few months, he became unreasonable and there was not a word anyone could say to calm him down. Gerome, grey and majestic, his friend of almost thirty years shrunk deeper into the chair and almost whimpered.

      But....But He stammered

      One more word out of you and I will have your tongue his very minute! Enzio glared at him, daring him.

      The silence between them hung like a fog on a cold winter morning with its clammy hands gliding slowly over their skins with the shivers hesitant to come forth.

      To lose a fourth ship in just over six months was catastrophic and the strain was beginning to tell. The cold, calculative bravado of the two businessmen has faded real fast unlike the old oxblood Venetian curtains hanging in the library which has seen several generations of Monegario pass through it. 

      Enzio was a bear of a man with flowing rivers of dark mane with streaks of silver at the temples. He towered over Gerome wishing he could snap his twig like neck but at the same time, he needed to hear excuses that waiting to trickle from him.

      Talk! 

      Enzio.... please understand my dear friend... I

      Enough old friend! Stop running around your tail and have some spine for once in your life! Enzio spat with disgust.

      What I did was to be beneficial to this house. Gerome started hesitantly. In retrospect, I should have carried you along but you were in Padua to visit your uncle and time was of the essence....

      "Beneficial you say? You have brought ruin to me! What was going through your head when you made such a big decision without me been present? What gave

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