This virtual book tour is presented by Bewitching Book Tours.
Welcome to The Wormhole and my stop on the tour.
About the
Author:
Diana Cachey is a licensed attorney,
published academic, and former adjunct law professor. She also holds a BA in
English, and while in law school, she was the first female editor-in-chief of
her university's law review.
The author of the novels Love Spirits and
Lagoon Lure, Cachey trained with several New York Times best-selling writers
whose sales total more than 70 million books. She has built a social media
platform with over one hundred thousand Twitter users, and her popular YouTube
channel featuring secret Venice locations has received over five hundred
thousand views.
For more than a decade, Cachey has
traveled to Venice, the setting of her novels, on extended trips several times
a year. The cafés, restaurants, and many other haunts of Venice play a
prominent role in her sexy paranormal mystery-romance series about a beautiful
American lawyer guided by the Ghosts of Venice in the investigation of a
hushed-up crime.
@dianacachey
Love Spirits
What
Happens In Venice: Book One
Diana
Cachey
Genre: Romance/paranormal.
Number of pages: 160
Word Count: 40,000
Tagline: Among the romantic canals of Venice—and oh so many Italian
distractions—can a stunning American lawyer and her psychic sister help the
Ghosts of Venice solve a hushed-up crime?
Book Description:
Louisa Mangotti is a gorgeous American
lawyer and Interpol expert who, after being offered a job working with the
international crime unit in Venice, receives a mysterious postcard from the
Venetian Ghosts, the ancient protectors of the Republic. But Louisa assumes her
bad-boy ex, Matteo, sent it in a quixotic attempt to gain her attention. Louisa may have dismissed the ghosts, but the
ghosts aren’t quite done with her.
When the bodies of two glassmakers wash
up on Murano Island, the cryptic messages persist. Reluctantly, Louisa calls
upon Matteo to help decipher the clues. And before she knows it, a flame that
was never fully extinguished is rekindled.
Sensing that her sister is in over her head, Barbara Mangotti rushes to
the rescue, only to be lured away by two handsome Venetian men.
With time running out, can the two
beauties solve a crime that could threaten the city of Venice itself?
Excerpt:
From the Top of Our
Great Bell Tower Saint Mark Square Venice, Italy
Dear wide-eyed tourist, Don’t
go to Venice.
But if you do, don’t
fall in -- in a canal, in love or into Venice itself. As if you have a choice.
Hear us cackling?
Listen. We came to warn
you about La Serenissima, the Most Serene One, as Venice has been called since
before the Middle Ages. You will not heed our warning and you will come looking
for us. How do we know? It happens every time a Venetian ghost story is told.
As ancient protectors of
the Venetian republic, we ghosts guard her virtues of which she has many. One
reason we love her, and you will too, is that she is stuck in time. Did you
know Venice functions without motorcars or trucks? We don’t like motorcars or
trucks. Hundreds of tiny islands sewn together by foot bridges leaves no need
for noisy, fume-spewing vehicles, thankfully.
We prefer floating.
Our classic transport is
the gondola. Mostly reserved for you tourists now, gondolas are and always have
been helmed by the most prestigious oarsmen in the world -- highly trained
gondoliers who stand while rowing through the labyrinth of canals. They don’t
mind when we ride with or without you while they serenade us with opera, Frank
Sinatra songs and romantic favorites.
Ah yes, romance. As one
visitor put it, “It’s their schtick, a Venetian ploy, an act to get sexy with
you.” It is true. Venice equals romance equals sex.
If the shadows of Venice
frighten you or you feel like you’re in a dream, have fun with it, float with
us. We are watching over you. We want to further your journey to a more magical
life because we think a person is charmed by a trip to La Serenissima.
It could change your
soul forever. Just ignore this cautionary tale.
We remain in your service, The Venetian Ghosts
Lagoon
Lure
What
Happens In Venice: Book Two
Diana
Cachey
Number of pages: 160
Word Count: 40,000
Tagline:
As Interpol expert Louisa Mangotti is
learning, ghosts watch over Venice.
Can she trust them—or her ex-lover—when spirits offer confusing clues to solve
a double murder in this sexy paranormal mystery?
Book
Description:
Lagoon Lure resumes the story of Interpol
expert Louisa Mangotti’s Venetian exploits and the paranormal assisted murder
investigation she began in Love Spirits.
Still unnerved by the notion that
Venetian ghosts are real, Louisa delves further into the deaths of two
glassmakers while juggling the lustful manipulations of her ex-lover, Matteo,
whose role in the murders grows murkier.
Meanwhile Louisa's usually shy sister,
Barbara, explores her newfound sexuality with Venice's willing men, sharing her adventures
with her sister but keeping one particularly mysterious man a secret.
When Louisa's best friend,
"Rouge," arrives for Carnival to sample its masked men, she
complicates the situation further by encouraging the sisters to embrace the
pleasures of Venice.
Paranormal clues and apparitions lead
Louisa deeper into the lagoon and she is forced to reluctantly enlist Matteo’s
support. Can she trust him, or will this ghostly lagoon lure prove deadly?
Back Cover
Copy:
Venice has its ghosts. They
haunt its byways and canals. They linger on its numerous bridges and waft
through its beautiful architecture—and they've taken a definite interest in
Interpol expert Louisa Mangotti.
In Lagoon Lure, Louisa continues
investigating the murder of two glassmakers she began in Love Spirits. Guided
by clues sent from otherworldly sources, she struggles to determine what role
her seductive ex-lover Matteo played in the deaths, constantly tempted by his
handsome looks, his charm, and the volatile chemistry between them.
While Louisa is led by the ghosts to a
sunken ship in the murky lagoon, her sister, Barbara, and best friend,
"Rouge," embark on their own carnal explorations of Venice, sampling the men who flock to
Carnival.
Amid corruption, conspiracy, and Venice's legendary sexual
energy, it's all Louisa can do to think straight, let alone untangle this web
of mystery. The ghosts, however, want her to persevere.
EXCERPT:
Venice
always delivered. For thousands of years she spread out her bounty for swarms
of people who feasted upon her beauty. They stayed in ornate palaces or luxury
hotels and paraded in stylish fashions. They admired diverse art, listened to
sweet music, sampled delicious food.
They also enjoyed
plentiful romantic opportunities.
Ah, the romantic allure
of Venice. It
continues to this day. Indeed, soon after Barbara’s arrival, Venice offered her no less than three
handsome men. Now there stood her sister, Louisa, who begged to hear the dirt
on two of them but knew nothing of the third man, the one Barbara wanted
most. She
planned to keep him a secret.
Barbara looked around
and tried to take it all in, all that Venice
had to offer. She saw in front of her a small island, which sat placidly in the
lagoon and proudly displayed its huge monastic bell tower. Although a massive
presence, this tower was easily dwarfed by the one it faced -- the more famous
one -- the one that housed the bells of San Marco. She gazed across the water,
let the reflecting sun’s rays warm her face and both Venetian towers began to
toll their bells behind her and before her. They echoed across the lagoon, reverberated
throughout the tranquil setting. Barbara took note of the bells. She’d been
trained by her Italian friends to pay particular attention to what she’d been
the thinking in that precise moment these bells began to chime.
She’d been thinking about
secrets. That third man. He must remain her secret.
Thus began her
diversion, a long philosophical theory about her twin orange cats.
“Back home in Seattle,” she said, “my cats confuse and distract me
during morning meditation, just like those two Venetian men did my first night
in Venice. The
two inquisitive cats circle my cushion then jump on the table where I offer
blessings of flowers and candy. They sniff and inspect as if they’ve never seen
the ritual before.”
Louisa yawned.
“Those cats seem to see
me anew each day, as a thing they need to supervise, approve or inspect.
Eventually, they settle nearby to meditate on their own. They observe my
struggle to quiet my mind while they remain perfect little meditators. Those
two Venetian men were the same. While I was nervous and disquieted, they just
purred.”
Louisa frowned.
Book
Trailers:
What Happens In Venice -- A Trinity
Book One, Love
Spirits
Book Two, Lagoon
Lure
Book Three, Magic
Island
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HELLini
Cocktail
by
Diana Cachey
Our Fang-tastic HELLini variation is
made more devilish because it is spiked with peach schnappes and a dash of
brandy on top, which is lit and served flaming. It is sparked further with
grenadine to effect an amber glow. A proper HELLini should brandish a black
licorice gum drop, sliced lengthwise and placed on the side of the glass, where
a peach-slice would go on the mere mortal Bellini.
HELLinis should preferably be served in
the most expensive hand-blown Murano glass champagne flute that money can buy
(that’s very freaky expensive) in the shape of a devil, such as the one
pictured here. Each HELLini can be chased by shots of Zambucca in a
hand blown snifter, making one feverish enough for a vampire bite.
If you drink more than one and survive
the night, you may go to “you-know-where.” Be careful of the things you may see
after drinking them.
Bellini Ingredients: Sparkling wine or
water, peach juice.
FANGtastic HELLini version: add peach
schnapps, dash of brandy. Light on fire. Sip from hand-blown Murano champagne
flute. ENJOY!
