Venetian Holiday — Christine Donovan

VENETIAN HOLIDAY A Christmas NovellaMia Russo travels to Italy to spend the Christmas Holidays with friends, the Melchionne's. Mia expects her best friend, Rosa, to welcome her to Venice, instead it is Luca, the eldest of Rosa's brothers. Ever since she can remember the two of them fought and argued over everything and nothing. Several years ago Mia figured out why. Her feelings for Luca go deep and she'll be damned if she'll let him find out. As far as she knew, he still considers her his little sister's annoying best friend.Luca spent the past few years trying to ignore Mia and the feelings she stirred inside him. Pretending disdain and dislike only gets one so far. Will he be able to pull off his subterfuge once again this holiday season? From the moment he greets Mia, as she disembarks from her water taxi, he knows the answer is no. The piercing pain in the vicinity of his heart feels as though Cupid shot him straight through with an arrow. So the answer, once again, is no,Will Mia and Luca find Amorein the cool, crisp holiday air in the most romanticoand bellissimocity on earth?