Valentine Wells returns to Venice. After having visited ten years earlier when she was just sixteen years old, it was where she had impulsively met Lorenzo Dipachio. Her first kiss. Her first love.
Now twenty-six, Valentine is a successful wedding photographer in Chicago. Still impulsive, Valentine is recently divorced after being married for about a minute in Las Vegas. And she doesn't miss the irony of being a divorced wedding photographer. Also dealing with her mother's recent diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's, Valentine's father convinces her that she needs a break.
Now that she is back in Venice, Valentine wants to prove to herself that she's no longer the impulsive, daring girl who got married (and quickly divorced) in Vegas to a man she barely knew. Now, she is living by a new set of rules: planned, cautious, and carefully executed.
But her plan is challenged when she falls (literally) into the path of her first love, Lorenzo. And with Valentine's Day around the corner, will Valentine be able to keep herself from making another big mistake?
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Valentine hopped off her stool. “Okay. I’ll take one scoop,” she said, reaching into her purse for her wallet.
The boy held out a large cone, even by Italian standards, with at least two scoops of bright green pistachio gelato. “No charge for you,” he said with a sheepish smile. Valentine felt at a loss for words, a rarity for her. Instead she pulled out her camera again, and took aim.
Click.
“You want to go for a walk?” she asked him suddenly.
The boy looked taken aback. He looked around. “I am working,” he fumbled.
Valentine shrugged. “Okay, see you around. Thanks for the gelato,” she said, eating a big scoop with the small spoon. The perfect antidote to Venice’s mid-summer heat.
“Wait. Just give me five minutes.”
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