Before You Say Anything By Sarah Gate
Bluebell doesn’t believe in coincidence. She believes in fate. So when a man in black velvet finds her hiding in the darkest corner of a Carnival ball, she knows the universe sent him. She calls him Phantom. He calls her Cinderella. Before he leaves, he asks her to meet him on the Rialto Bridge at noon the next day.
She swears she won’t go. She goes anyway.
But he’s no stranger. Phantom is her friend, Jesse. In their twenties they almost kissed on a New York street. Then he told her he didn’t do ‘no-strings’ and she didn’t do anything more.
Now he lives next door to her little pink house on Burano. But Bluebell’s time is running out. Without a visa she only gets ninety days in Venice.
Jesse has an Italian passport and a solution. Marry him. But as friends and on paper only.
