The Art of Enchantment (Life is a Journey) - Softcover

Clarke Scott, M A; Clarke, MaryAnn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0994950764 ISBN 13: 9780994950765

Publisher: West Wind Books, 2017

Synopsis

Chatelaine Grand Prize winning book by author MaryAnn ClarkeEcstasy is the only thing on Clio’s mind.Specifically, ecstasy as portrayed in the Renaissance art of Italy. Clio is a shy art history doctoral student, clinging to her last chance at achieving the college degree of her father’s dreams, when she meets fast-living, sexy Italian architect Guillermo.They come from two different worlds, but share a deep passion for history and beauty.Clio can’t resist being drawn into Guillermo’s problems when his family’s beautiful ancestral villa is at risk of being sold to an American rap star who will carelessly destroy it’s rich culture, history and artistry.She tries to keep it professional and fights the urge to surrender to his smoldering seduction. Guillermo is exactly the type of man Clio’s experience has taught her to avoid, and by getting involved with him and his villa, she stands to lose much more than her precious Ph.D. Can Clio juggle her PhD thesis, a too-hot-to-handle romance, and rescue a priceless piece of history or will everything end in disaster?

About this title

About the Author

M A Clarke Scott's early loves included two things: books and art. In her world view, blank white pages, canvasses and even blank white walls, were begging for her creations. Neither of these passions have waned, despite all the other adventures she's had in the meantime. She wrote her first romance novel at the age of nine, but soon abandoned both writing and drawing for a career in architecture, then an academic career in environmental gerontology. Tiring of both, and still none the richer, she has returned to her first loves, writing and art. She writes about young women on journeys abroad who discover themselves and fall in love while getting embroiled in someone else's problems... and professional women struggling to balance the challenge and fulfillment of their career with their search for identity, love, family and home. She also loves to weave dramatic relationships into close-to-home sci-fi adventure plots, particularly in the steampunk and cyberpunk sub-genres. M A lives with a small menagerie of large men and small mammals on the beautiful West Coast of British Columbia, and though she knows she lives in paradise, still loves traveling the world in search of romance and adventure.

Review

Want to read a book where the plot crafted in a way that has a grip on your heart, tears in your throat and laughter on your lips? Then this is the book for you. Who doesn’t love romance, art history, and family? The plots twists and tension kept me reading well into the night. The Author M A Clarke Scott gives the reader a run for their money. And if you love Italian then you are in high heaven...The passion, literally and figuratively, in this book [have to read it to understand that statement best] is well written. Doesn’t hurt a bit that strong realistic characters fill this novel from beginning to end. T Mattsen, Library Thing & Goodreads reviewer

Edition details

• Publisher: West Wind Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0994950764
• ISBN 13: 9780994950765
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 334