Venetian Masquerade — Ellen Fitzgerald

WHICH MAN COULD SHE TRUST BEHIND HIS MASK?

Venice was a most perilous place for a beautiful and romantic young Englishwoman like Miss Georgiana Lovat, for in this city, so dazzling on the surface, there were dark depths, and nothing was what it seemed--not even love.

Georgiana had to discover if the irresistibly handsome Alston Hillyard, adored from afar since her girlhood, was the hero she imagined or the knave he increasingly appeared to he. At the same time, she struggled to resist the Apollo-like handsomeness and sophisticated charm of Count Franc von Helfred, whose reputation was so evil, yet whose command of all the ways to melt a young lady's heart was so compelling.

Georgiana was caught up in a breathtaking masquerade ball of enchantment and enticement, trying to keep her head unwaveringly level even as love was sweeping her dizzyingly off her feet...