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During a six‑month teaching contract in Venice, Linnetzen arrives to help a young girl named Cassie improve her English. She finds comfort in Cassie’s bright curiosity but feels strained by the presence of the girl’s father, the affluent Italian Max di Angeli. Linnet suspects a connection between Max and the disappearance of Cassie’s mother, a thought that tightens the tightness of her confinement. Though her sense of duty presents her as a "willing captive," she is also trapped by the restrictions imposed on her because of her contract and the influence of Venice’s wealthy and powerful.
First publish date: January 1994
Genre: Romance/Contemporary Romance
Authors: Lee Stafford
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