Carolina warns not to be fooled by the photo. "Even if you walk most of the race, you want to be sure to break into a run for the camera." Although most of her running days have morphed into walking days, she's completed over a hundred distance races - six of them marathons. Her short story about a murder on the streets she's actually competed on, in the Los Angeles Marathon, appears in a Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles anthology.
After a varied career as a registered nurse while winning awards and making sales writing freelance, she decided to retire to finish her first novel. Now she writes about searing passions and the sweetly explosive ecstasies of love.
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UNMASKED by Carolina Valdez
Part of Amber Quill Allure's Masquerade Series
When they meet, Antony, an Italian-American, and Sam, a Frenchman, are immediately attracted to each other, even if costumed from head to toe for an elegant masked ball in Venice, Italy. Mid evening, when the men go into Antony's room to remove their full masks and replace them with those covering only half their faces, their attraction ignites sudden desire that drives them to fulfillment. They're still drawn to each other when the complete unmasking occurs at midnight, but Sam isn't aware that Antony, a former hockey player, also harbors secrets he's not ready to reveal. As the weekend ends and the men each return to the United States, a discouraged Antony sees no future for their fling to build into something solid. He has a fledgling business to run on the California coast, and Sam's life revolves around energy-devouring hours of practice in a mountain ice rink in order to win figure skating's coveted World gold medal.
Their mutual love of skating might have kept these men together, but Antony still hides behind a mask. What will it take to strip it away and give the star-crossed lovers a chance for love?
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