Stories of Love, Life, and Passion in Northern Italy
After an eventful five months, Angelina, an Italian native, and Benjamin, a transplanted American, have fallen in love and are expecting a child-both events unexpected. They begin planning their wedding in Rimini, on the Adriatic coast of Italy-with Valentina's help, of course-and Angelina looks forward to meeting Benjamin's family from America.
Valentina, Angelina's godmother, embraces the wedding planning as she adds matron of honor and de facto mother of the bride to her resumé. Angelina's mother had died more than a dozen years before, but for a few short months in high school, she and Valentina had been the happiest of lovers. Valentina is pleased for Angelina's pregnancy and upcoming wedding to Benjamin and begins to embrace the idea of becoming a grandmother. But first, she must get through the wedding. Just as life is settling down for everyone, people from Valentina's past surface, and she is arrested for the murder of Angelina's first husband.
Has Valentina been lying to Angelina all this time?
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D.J. Paolini is the author of The Infinite Passion of Life, his first novel, and the first book in the planned six-book series: The Rock & the Rose. His non-fiction work includes technical editor of three award-winning database programming books. He was the contributing editor with a monthly column for a database industry magazine. He was selected to coauthor a database programming book in the popular "Teach Yourself..." series. Paolini was on the team that won an award for best technical documentation for a software program. He has delivered several dozen technical papers in more than one hundred sessions at conferences in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Paolini has had three poems published. He also writes music and has had several pieces performed in the United States and France. He wrote a column for his college newspaper and he received a creative writing award in high school. He has traveled extensively and infuses that experience into his writing. Within Me, an Invincible Summer is the second book in the series set in Northern Italy.
In his spare time, he has played in weekend rock bands and served as a volunteer firefighter and emergency squad member, including six years as fire chief. He is a licensed soccer referee and has served as the administrator for youth soccer referees in his home state of New Jersey.
