Ellie Murphy gets a job teaching English in Venice where she meets Professor Piero Contarini, sexy, enigmatic and descended from old Venetian family. She helps him curate a new edition of the memoirs of the famous seducer, Giacomo Casanova.
Katherine Mezzacappa, who writes under the pen name of Kate Zarrelli for Romaunce Books is an Irish author currently living in Carrara, northern Tuscany. She holds a BA in History of Art from UEA, an MLitt in English Literature from Durham and a Masters in Creative Writing from Canterbury Christ Church University. Her debut novel (writing as Katie Hutton), The Gypsy Bride, made the last fifteen in the Historical Novel Society's 2018 new novel competition. Her short fiction has been short- and longlisted in numerous competitions, and she has been awarded residencies at Cill Rialaig Artists village by the Irish Writers Centre in 2019 and at Hald Hovedgaard by the Danish Centre for Writers and
