Giulia Tofana

No dia do casamento, Afonso entrou tarde no salão, de braço dado com sua primeira paixão, vestindo o traje de padrinho. O terno do noivo? Jogado de qualquer jeito no sofá, num claro sinal de desordem. — Afonso, hoje não é o nosso casamento... — Júlia. — Ele interrompeu, com uma voz fria, cheia de aviso enquanto olhava para mim firme. — Você sabe muito bem o que pode e o que não pode dizer. Seja madura, não me faça te odiar. Só pude soltar um sorriso amargo. Tudo isso aconteceu porque a primeira paixão de Afonso perdeu a memória. Desde então, todos ao redor entraram nesse teatro coletivo para ajudá-la a recuperar as lembranças. Ninguém podia permitir que ela se sentisse perturbada. Para manter a paz, Afonso até tentou me consolar, aproximando-se para um abraço e murmurando ao meu ouvido: — Juju, você entende meu lado, certo? Acenei em silêncio, e fui capaz de me desprender de tudo ao segurar a mão do verdadeiro padrinho e seguir de cabeça erguida rumo ao altar. No entanto, mais tarde, enquanto eu, grávida, fazia compras no shopping, Afonso apareceu diante de mim, com os olhos cheios de lágrimas. — Juju, não estávamos apenas atuando todo esse tempo? Como você pôde engravidar?

“What could I possibly use you for?” Don Antonio asked as he walked towards her. He lifted her chin, his gray eyes staring deep staring into hers burning with a mixture of curiosity and desire. He immediately left her chin and snapped his fingers. He had an idea. “If you are willing to be my companion for three years, I'll let your father go.” Her eyes widened at the sound of the word “companion”. The word tasted like hell. “I’m willing.” Giulia knew fully well that she was walking into hell, but did she really have a choice? Her father, Ricardo Moreau, a compulsive gambler, accumulated debt after losing big in one of Antonio's underground casinos and was locked up. She couldn't bear to see her father locked up and offered herself in exchange for him. Antonio made life unbearable for her, and at some point, she felt the urge to run away, but how possible was that? Giulia decided to stay calm and constantly reminded herself that it was only for three years. She was both physically and mentally abused. At some point, Antonio begins to look at Giulia in another way; he begins to see a side of her that he had never seen before, and Giulia, on the other hand, begins to fall for a man whom she had considered her enemy. Things then begin to get complicated when the boss of a rival Mafia family asks for Giulia in exchange for a deal. Will Antonio hand Giulia over to his rival, or will he do everything within his power to keep her safe? Will they put away the hate from the past and let their love blossom? Or will they break up when the contract expires, leaving their passion behind?

Giulia Miller is a dreamy virgin girl from New Jersey who doesn't want her innocence taken away by anyone who doesn't love her. That's why Giulia studies and works hard to pursue her dreams, one of which is to visit Turkey, a country she has admired since she started watching Turkish soap operas. One night out with her friends, she meets Serkan Sadik. It seems like fate since he is Turkish and very attractive. They kiss that night, but Giulia refuses to leave the bar with him because she knows what it would mean for her. Despite Serkan fitting into her fantasies of the East, she doesn't give in to his pleas for a night together, after all, she doesn't know him. However, fate plays tricks on her, and the next day at her new job presentation, Giulia discovers that her boss is none other than Serkan, the man she rejected the night before. A little surprised to see that Giulia will be his new secretary, Serkan is in a bad mood. The cat and mouse relationship between the poor Turkish translator and her boss begins as they start working together and feel an intense sensual tension between them. Giulia becomes an important part of Serkan's work involving an old man who refuses to sell his land for the construction of a shopping mall. As a result, the couple grows closer, and they slowly realize they are starting to like each other in this cat and mouse game.

Giulia Cavalieri grew up running from the mafia, and she always knew that one day they would find her. Fruit of a forbidden marriage between his mother, sister of a capo from Chicago, and a member of the Russian mafia, sealed his fate, and aroused the fury of the Villani family. Five years ago Giulia was entrusted to the care of the same hands that welcomed her mother, when she had nowhere to run, in the care of the sisters of a small convent a few kilometers from Rome. Now, about to complete adulthood she is awakened with gunshots in the middle of the night, and tries to escape, even knowing that it is impossible to escape from Michael Villani. Michael knew that the marriage between his parents was an arrangement, which is very common in the mafia, but what he never imagined was that his father had loved Donatella Cavalieri all his life. On his deathbed, Erico makes a last request to him, who claims Giulia, and ensures that she stays under his protection as his wife. All Giulia wanted was an ordinary life, studying, traveling, knowing the world. Among Michael’s goals, marriage would appear, and he was very happy with Carolyn, his mistress. But an agreement must be made in the name of peace between men of honor. Kept in a property and watched constantly, Giulia sees little of her future husband, until the night of her eighteenth birthday, when the engagement would be announced. When Michael kisses her, after putting the expensive ring on her finger, a spark ignites between them, in acombination of attraction and repulsion. Two sides of a story that had a tragic outcome that can either hate each other all their lives, or allow themselves to live an overwhelming love story.

“You need to know what you are getting into, sweetie.” He smirked, running his eyes down my body, stripping me bare with his dark, wanton eyes. I gulped and took slow steps towards him, walking on shaky legs but trying to look strong. “You don't know I am, Mark. Bring it on. I can sate your demons.” No matter how dark they are. After all, I'm not the angel he thinks I am… **** Running from her foster parents, Giulia had a run-in with Mark, a Mafia Lord in Spain. The meeting was incidental, but it sealed the hearts of the strangers, bringing them back to each other despite how far they tried to go. One is a sadist, and the other is a closeted masochist, waiting for the right one to set free her inner restraints. Will their paths be straight, or will there be internal and external forces trying to keep them apart? Would Giulia succeed in taming the mafia Lord, or will his darkness engulf her? Note: This is the second book in the series.

Il y a cinq ans, Giulia a fait le choix le plus déchirant de sa vie : quitter Lorenzo, l’homme qu’elle aimait, pour le sauver d’une ruine financière qu’il ignorait. Elle a endossé le rôle de l’ambitieuse, acceptant d’épouser un homme riche pour que Lorenzo puisse repartir libre. Cinq ans plus tard, Lorenzo est de retour. Riche, puissant et habité par la haine, il l’humilie en la faisant travailler sous ses ordres. Pire, il séduit et demande en mariage sa sœur cadette, Chiara . Giulia se retrouve piégée dans un double martyre : supporter chaque jour le mépris de l’homme qu’elle aime encore, tout en assistant, le cœur brisé, au bonheur apparent de sa propre sœur avec lui. Giulia garde le silence, préférant absorber la vengeance de Lorenzo plutôt que de détruire le bonheur de Chiara. Elle porte seule le poids de son sacrifice et de son amour intact, jusqu’au jour où l’humiliation publique poussée trop loin révèle malgré elle la vérité. Quand sa sœur découvre la lettre qu’elle n’a jamais envoyée , celle qui raconte toute la vérité , le fragile édifice de mensonges s’effondre. Mais pour Giulia, trop de souffrance a déjà eu lieu, trop de silences ont creusé un abîme. Même face au remords de Lorenzo, elle se demande si l’amour qui couve encore sous les cendres de leur histoire pourra jamais renaître… ou si certaines blessures condamnent à aimer dans l’ombre, à jamais.

Alessa Sullivan, a 20-year-old orphan, counts Giulia De Luca as her best friend from college. Giulia is the daughter of a rising Italian tycoon in Washington. After losing her parents, Alessa lives on campus with the help of a scholarship she receives from the government. At the end of the year, there's always a party involving the students and their families, and during one such event, Alessa meets a charming man. Despite their age difference, he is not intimidated and offers her the best of what he has to give. Mattias De Luca, having lost his wife, hasn't had any long-term relationships since her death. With his daughter now in college, he was not looking to remarry. However, during a graduation party, he bumped into an attractive woman and ended up having a tryst with her in the school library. When he discovers the identity of the woman, the weight of his conscience and his concern for his actions lead him to accept his daughter’s invitation to have her friend move in with them. A romance with an age difference... An innocent girl who falls in love with her friend’s father... An experienced man who will show her how a woman should be treated…

Liam wouldn’t see it coming. And Karen? She’d probably choke on her wine. A dark smile danced on my lips. Let them gasp. Let them stare. They thought I was buried with Camilla Ryder. Now… I rise as Giulia Bianchi-Vincent, and this time, I’m the nightmare they won’t wake up from because revenge is too simple, destruction is demure ... ...What happened when I escaped the prison as someone framed for killing her step-sister, only to return as someone else's wife?

Cinq ans à espérer, un jour pour tout briser : Nina quitte Marco sans se retourner, mais il refuse de la laisser s'enfuir Nina Vitale et Marco Fontana sont mariés depuis cinq ans. Tout au long de leur vie commune, Marco s'est montré glacial, mais Nina n'a jamais perdu espoir de faire fondre sa carapace. Le jour de son anniversaire, elle apprend la vérité : Marco a toujours été amoureux d'une autre femme. Lorsque Giulia confie qu'elle aimerait que cette femme devienne sa nouvelle maman, Nina sent enfin quelque chose se briser : elle se rend compte qu'elle vient de tout perdre . Sans un regard en arrière, elle prépare les papiers du divorce, renonce à la garde de Giulia et disparaît de leur vie. De retour au travail, elle se relève avec rage. En quelques mois, elle bâtit sa propre réussite. Mais les semaines passent, et le divorce n'arrive jamais. Marco, qui évitait leur domicile, y revient sans cesse. Il est devenu jaloux, possessif. Quand il comprend que Nina veut vraiment le quitter, il la plaque contre le mur : — Divorcer ? Jamais je ne te laisserai partir.

Et si la plus grande séductrice de tous les temps n'était pas un homme, mais une femme ? Dans une société encore dominée par les conventions et les attentes, Giulia Ferrelli, brillante, libre et audacieuse, renverse les codes en collectionnant les conquêtes masculines avec le même art que Casanova en son temps. Entre Venise, Paris et Rome, elle joue de son charme, de son esprit et de son mystère pour s'ouvrir toutes les portes… et tous les cœurs. Mais derrière les jeux de passion et les plaisirs assumés, Giulia cache une quête plus profonde : celle de comprendre ce qu’est vraiment l’amour, au-delà de la domination et de la liberté. Peut-on aimer quand on refuse de s’attacher ? Peut-on être femme et Casanova sans être condamnée par la société ? Une histoire provocante, sensuelle et brillante, qui interroge les rapports de pouvoir, de genre et de désir.