A Rare Passion
By Lucille Bellucci

Summary

Linden Bradley, an American biologist, is invited down to Brazil to help rescue animals dislodged by flood when the biggest hydroelectric project in the world goes online. She meets Cole Dominguez, a rancher who dreams of beating Argentina's monopoly on the export of beef. Linden has a one-year sabbatical from her research facility in New York State. She and Cole fall deeply in love, but both have a lot of old wounds to work through before their love has a chance. Cole has been cynical about marriage since his beloved mother divorced his equally loved father, and Linden is divorced from a diplomat, who was secretly ashamed of her being mulatta.

About Lucille Bellucci

I was born in Shanghai, China, of an Italian-DutchIndonesian father and a Chinese mother. I lived five years in Italy, 15 years in Brazil. I speak fluent Portuguese and passable Italian. My publication credits are some 40 short stories, essays, and poems in the Xavier Revi , The Taos Review, Ceilidh, Yellow Silk, L'Ouverture, Snake Nation, Northcoast Vie , Magic Realism, and other periodicals; humor/satire in UNCLE, The Hoosier Challenger, The Alabama Fiction Revi , Mature Years, American Gardener, and Snort Fishing; children's fiction and features in The Friend, Callie's Tales, Faces, Mendocino Review, and Skipping Stones. An essay and a story placed first in competition. In 1983 1 wrote a report on wildlife rescue in South America for Defenders. A story has been anthologized in LOVING VOICE, The Charles Press. A second story appeared in LOVING VOICE II in 1995. Another appeared in TRAVELER'S TALES: A DOG'S WORLD, in October 1997. These are my four novels: JOURNEY FROM SHANGHAI (set in Shanghai and Italy), THE YEAR OF THE RAT (set in Shanghai), THE SNAKE WOMAN OF IPANEMA (set in Brazil), and A RARE PASSION, a romance set in Brazil.

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