Book excerpt: Infatuation can make you do the stupidest things. Like risk your very life . . . Laura would never have gone to Venice if she had known she would meet Sebastian Ferrese there - the enigmatic film director that she has been fighting her attraction towards. However, her nomination for an award at the Film Festival proves too much of an enticement, and when Laura sees Sebastian, she finds herself swept up in his overwhelming magnetism. But death seems to follow Sebastian around - and by the time Laura begins to suspect that he is no innocent bystander she might just be in too deep . . .