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Автор Winters Rebecca
“Lucca,” she called softly to him. “Wake up. You’re dreaming. Come on. ”
Using a gentle rolling motion, she managed to get him on his back. More unintelligible words flew out of his mouth.
His tear-washed face was her undoing. She bent over him and started kissing his eyelids and cheeks. “Lucca?” she whispered. “The war is over. You’re home and safe. ” She ran her lips over every rugged line and angle of the face haunting
“Hush, now,” she murmured against his lips, both of theirs salty from his tears. “You’re not alone. I’m here. ”
Just when she thought she wasn’t getting through to him he muttered, “Annabelle?”
“Yes!” she cried, so relieved he’d come back to reality she didn’t care what he thought of her unorthodox methods. Her sorrow for what he’d suffered went too deep for tears. He’d been injured and had lost his best friend. She rocked him in her arms. With a swift strength she could scarcely credit, he pulled her body toward him.
Dear Reader,
Up to the time I was fifteen, going on sixteen, our eight -member family got along with the Buick my father drove.
(He looked exactly like Charles Boyer in his younger days. ) Then something incredible happened. In 1955 he came home from work one day driving a convertible that was so adorable I thought I was seeing things. He’d bought a Porsche 356 Carrera Cabriolet. It was gleaming white, with red leather seats, and looked like a toy. I’d never heard of a Porsche, but if you could fall in love with a car, I did.A month later it was time for me to take my driving test, and Daddy taught me how to drive in the Porsche with its stick shift. The day after I got my licence, he let me drive it to my high school. Needless to say I was the most popular girl at the school that day, and never got over my love of foreign sports cars. When you read this novel,
I dedicate this book to the most saintly, brilliant, wonderful, generous father in the world.
Enjoy!
About the Author
REBECCA WINTERS, whose family of four children has now swelled to include three beautiful grandchildren, lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the land of the Rocky Mountains. With canyons and high alpine meadows full of wild flowers, she never runs out of places to explore. They, plus her favourite vacation spots in Europe, often end up as backgrounds for her Mills & Boon® romance novels, because writing is her passion, along with her family and church.
Her Italian
Soldier
Rebecca Winters
CHAPTER ONE
ANNABELLE Marsh stood at the bathroom sink while she began removing her makeup. She didn’t recognize the blond woman in the mirror staring back at her. There was an unnatural gleam to her shoulder-length hair she could never have achieved on her own. Her eyes really weren’t that violet. Nor were her brows and lashes quite as dark.
