Second Marriage

This is the second book in the Husband & Wife series, we find Donato & Grace Vittoria are expecting twins and Grace asks her best friend Claire to come to Italy to spend time with her, and help her with the infants once they are born. Because Grace has no living relatives Claire goes happily to help her dear friend. But right away sparks fly. Claire meets Romano Bellini now a widower who is scared to death of love. Romano had the same kind of up-bringing as Grace, only he had parents who didn't want him, with the scars of his youth and a horrible marriage behind him, he fought the attraction he had for Claire. Claire had been raised in a loving home, with 5 older brothers and lots of love. So when she met Romano she was instantly attracted to him, but she felt she couldn't compete with his beautiful but now dead wife. Romano told Claire they could have a wonderful affair and walk away. Claire told Romano she would rather just walk away, that she wasn't into affairs, ever. But Claire had been leg down badly by the man she thought she loved, when she was involved in a traffic accident, and was injured. From the back of the book: 'The second Mrs. Bellini. Claire would make some man the perfect wife-everyone said so. But after being jilted by her fiance, she wasn't sure she believed in love anymore. Until she saw her best friend reunited with the husband she thought she'd lost forever-and Claire's faith in romance was restored. Staying with the happy couple, it seemed like fate when she met their closest friend, Romano Bellini. He was beautiful, and for a fleeting moment Claire wondered if... But Romano had been married before and didn't want his life complicated by a second wife. Curious, then, that the subject of marriage just kept coming up!'