Magic in Italy — Nina Beaumont

Magic in Italy includes three historical romances, each with a touch of paranormal. This trilogy offers sweeping historical romance featuring a time slip/paranormal twist. The setting is dazzling Italy, with each romance set in its own captivating world: Renaissance Siena, Michelangelo's Florence, and Venice at the time of Casanova.ACROSS TIMEPlummeted through time from one dangerous world to another, a brave woman may hold the power to change history ... but what if she fails?It is 1794, and Countess Adrienne de Beaufort is smuggling French aristocrats to England to save them from the guillotine. In a moment of mortal danger, fate plunges her across time to 1499 Siena. Adrienne is stunned to find herself inhabiting the body of her ancestress Isabella, a woman for whom deceit and treachery are a way of life. And she is about to come face to face with Isabella's new husband, Alessandro di Montefiore, the heir to the Dukedom of Siena, on their wedding night.Alessandro expects duplicity and betrayal from his beautiful new wife. Why then is he seduced by the innocence in her eyes? Why then does he find himself prepared to take unimaginable risks because her spirit touches his heart?As Adrienne navigates Isabella's life, her mind and her soul remain her own. She fights to overcome the darkness of Isabella's story, knowing that only she can prevent Alessandro's betrayal and death. Fearlessly, she risks her heart, her soul, and her life to save the man she loves.TWICE UPON TIMEWhat if you went back in time to relive a life you had once lived?Sarah Longford leads a threadbare existence in Victorian London. But her nights are filled with dreams of a passion-filled life under the hot Italian sun—a life familiar to her because it was her own in another time.A slip through time allows Sarah to live again as the tempestuous Bianca who had sold herself in marriage for the riches and power she craved, only to discover that what she really wanted was Alessio, her husband's brother. Can Sarah relive Bianca's life without repeating her terrible mistakes?THE SHADOWED HEARTWhat if you cannot discern between good and evil—even if you have second sight?Chiara, a young, clairvoyant Gypsy, arrives in Venice on the first day of Carnival in 1767. When she sees Luca Zeani with his face of a fallen angel, she believes him to be the man who violated her sister—the man she has vowed to destroy. Why then does her second sight show her a man surrounded by light when she is sure he is a man of darkness?As she starts falling in love with Luca, her quest for the truth becomes all-important. At the same time, Luca becomes involved in a risky conspiracy.Even when the truth is revealed to Chiara, danger and treachery threaten what she holds dear. Will knowing the truth be enough to survive?