Venice

By Jaye Burke

When wealth and poverty meet at the onset of World War I, two young lovers will defy the rules of society but be torn apart by hate, greed, and the vicious cruelty by the ones they hold most dear.

1995
When an old woman remembers the love she had lost so many years before, vivid memories take her back to her summer home, the arms of her first husband, and how their life together had been maliciously stolen away from them by greed and cruelty.

1916
In the elite Garden District of old New Orleans, twenty-year-old Venice Arial, the daughter of a wealthy banker, Jean Pierre and his wife Lorraine, is trapped within the rules of a rigid society. On a summer trip to the family's summer home, Belle-Haven, on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain, Venice meets a poor local boy, Etienne Armand, who shows her real love, how to be independent, and overcome the dreaded life that awaits her in New Orleans.

But soon the lovers are viciously torn apart as cruel twists and inconceivable turns pull their lives in different directions. Unexpectedly, they reunite after searching for one another and marry, but Arial Mansion holds many secrets and soon The Great War is used to seal their fate.

Will Venice give up on Etienne's return from France and accept the awful truth? Will her future belong to the source of the deceit and lies? Or will she retreat to Belle-Haven and live out her life amid the beautiful yet painful memories?

Fans of Rys Bowen and Ruth Saberton will revel in this compelling and heartbreaking tale of great love, a brutal war, and how one young woman triumphs over past aggressions by regaining trust, and learning how to forgive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08B39QM8D
• ISBN13: 9798600373471
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"