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THE
MINALDI LEGACY
“I’m a monster, Eva. There’s no saving a
monster. But I love that you want to try.”
Luca Minaldi is rich,
powerful and mesmerizing. He’s also a reclusive enigma. He lives in
Malta, a fairy-tale place filled with sunshine and sea, beauty and
secrets. And Luca’s darkest of secrets is the best-kept of them
all.
Eva Talbot moves to
Malta to finish her doctoral dissertation in Psychiatry. When she meets
Luca, there is a very real and instant attraction that she has never felt
before. But even still, she senses the darkness that lives within him.
Eva is hired to care
for Luca’s mother, a woman who suffers from dementia. It is Luca,
however, that Eva will eventually risk everything to save… as the legacy that
plagues him continues.
As the darkness swirls
ever more tightly around her, Eva realizes that no matter how hard she tries,
she might not be able to save Luca without losing herself.
Eva and Luca are
thrust into a world where their love is tested and darkness reigns. Amid
chaos and treachery, love and hate, Luca and Eva learn one important thing.
Love is
dangerous.
But it also might be
the one thing that can save them all.
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The Minaldi Legacy
consists of two parts, part one: Of Blood and Bone and part two: Of
Darkness and Demons. It contains adult themes and content.
EXCERPT
“Miss, is everything
alright?”
A deep voice is calling
from outside of my house. And before I can think about it and remember
that I don’t know anyone here and that a stranger really shouldn’t be outside
of my house, particularly in the middle of the night, I answer.
“No. I’m not.”
In a scant moment, a
man bursts into my bedroom.
He looks startled to
see that I am alone.
And I am startled
because he’s alarmingly handsome.
So it appears that we
are both startled as we stare at each other.
He’s dark haired,
tanned, and has dark eyes. His bangs are hanging artfully in his eyes,
although the hair on the back of his head is a little shorter. It’s a
style that works for him. He’s got broad shoulders, slim hips, chiseled yet
graceful features and Sweet Merciful Mary, he’s beautiful. He’s dressed
in jogging shorts and running shoes and a bead of sweat trickles down his
temple. I don’t even have time to wonder why he’s out for a run in the
middle of the night before I notice that he’s also got that sexy, day-old
stubble that I so love on a man.
I swallow and realize
that my mouth has gone dry.
“Are you alright?” he
asks, his eyes skimming over me, assessing the situation. It’s a valid
question. I had been screaming bloody hell, after all.
I nod. Then shake
my head.
“Spider,” I whisper.
His dark eyes widen and
he follows my pointing finger with his gaze.
Then he laughs, husky
and rich.
“Spider,” he confirms
with a nod, his dark eyes sparkling in amusement. “It looks like you’ve
got yourself a perfect specimen of the Writing Spider.”
“Writing Spider?” I
repeat, watching it nervously, making sure it doesn’t try to run across the
bedroom floor and up my leg. “Is it poisonous?”
Handsome Running Guy
nods solemnly.
“Oh, it’s a known
killer, alright.”
I gasp and lurch even
further away from the hairy creature on my bed and Handsome Running Guy
laughs.
“I’m sorry. I’m
only joking. I couldn’t resist. It’s not poisonous. I think its
scientific name is Black and Yellow Argiope, or something like that. They
are all over here. But you wouldn’t know that because you’re not from
here, are you?”
I shake my head again,
trying not to be overly enthralled with his charming accent.
“Is it that obvious?”
He smiles and suddenly
it seems like all natural sources of light are pouring into my room,
originating from this man. He’s got such a strong presence that it makes
my spine tingle. And my stomach is fluttering in a way that it hasn’t
fluttered since high school. Interesting.
He shakes his head and
then holds out his hand.
“Luca Minaldi,” he
tells me and his fingers are cool as he shakes my hand.
“Evangeline Talbot,” I
answer. “But my friends call me Eva.”
“It’s nice to meet
you,” and his eyes agree with him as he stares at me. “The question now
is would you like for me to kill your uninvited guest or should I release him
into the wilds?”
“Kill it,” I say
firmly. Slight disapproval passes over Luca’s face like a shadow.
“Are you certain?” he
asks. “It’s an amazing specimen and they do eat bugs. Bugs can get
pesky here in Malta, Evangeline.”
“You can call me Eva,”
I answer. “And if we release it into the outdoors, he might come back
in.”
I shudder again at that
thought.
“True,” Luca
agrees. “And so might anyone else. Your door wasn’t locked.
And I can’t call you Eva. We’re not yet friends.”
Courtney Cole is a novelist who would eat mythology for breakfast if she could. She has a degree in Business, but has since discovered that corporate America is not nearly as fun to live in as fictional worlds. She loves chocolate and roller coasters and hates waiting and rude people.
Courtney lives in quiet suburbia, close to Lake
Michigan, with her real-life Prince Charming, her ornery kids (there is a small
chance that they get their orneriness from their mother) and a small domestic
zoo.
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