Kate Zarrelli: TUSCAN ENCHANTMENT
I’m not normally a
reader of Erotic Romances, but I made an exception for this one because Kate
Zarelli and I became friends last year after meeting up on an editorial course
run by the Curtis Brown literary agency. What a little gem her newly published
novel is.
Antonia, a ‘Sleeping
Beauty’ English librarian, emotionally scarred by a heartless lover, takes
refuge in a research job in Italy and falls for her employer’s nephew Lorenzo,
a magnificently gorgeous Italian stallion (the 'Bobby Ewing' cover doesn't do his gorgeousness justice!). Lorenzo’s ex, a Swiss beauty with a
heart of ice, casts a shadow over their happiness.
Kate Zarelli’s style,
polished and elegant, put me in mind of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca. She breathes Tuscan warmth and
perfume into the pages of the story. The erotic scenes are intense and sensuous
with none of the lurid sensationalism of Fifty
Shades of Grey. Tuscan Enchantment is
very much at the Quality end of the Romance bookshelf.
