SHOCKING VANESSA HOLDOM is the youngest female billionaire in the world. She's twenty-nine, confident, sexy and filthy rich. She's got it all...until her perfect life is ruined by her cheating fiance. Devastated and humiliated, she runs away to Venice to mend her broken heart and dodge the paparazzi. SEXY MARCO ROMANO is a penniless and recently widowed gondolier with a penchant for watercolor paintings. When he sees heartbroken Vanessa crying at Piazza San Marco, he offers to cheer her up with a guided tour of Venice. What begins as a few simple gestures of kindness soon turns into a torrid love affair that changes Vanessa's life in the most unpredictable way. SCANDALOUS"