Singapore Secrets
by Irene Onorato
Publication date: April 17th 2016
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
by Irene Onorato
Publication date: April 17th 2016
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
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Secrets . . .
Angry because her father,
Louisiana Senator Jacob Windsor, has announced his engagement to Hollywood
starlet Kara Bordeaux, Julia Windsor decides she’d rather leave home than be
subjected to heightened security and a deluge of paparazzi. She travels to Singapore,
severs all communication with those she’s left behind, and chooses to live a
life of anonymity.
When Julia meets handsome Gabriel
Davenport, she keeps her true purpose for being in Singapore a secret. The
friendship that develops quickly evolves into something much deeper.
Julia marvels that she’s traveled
halfway around the world to find love with an American man. But will that love
endure when she discovers that Gabriel is a former Special Forces sergeant
hired by her father to protect her?
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“How
could you even think of doing this to Mom? Or to me?” Julia Windsor folded her
arms and turned her back to her father. An opaque curtain of tears blurred her
vision. She would not cry. Not here, not now.
Her father
stroked her bare upper arms. “I loved your mother with all my heart, but she’s
been gone eight years. Don’t you think she’d want me to be happy?”
The
sweet, consolatory tone of her father’s voice couldn’t ease the pain his
shocking news inflicted. Her heart couldn’t be more shattered if it were made
of glass. She shrank from his touch and stepped forward. “Why’d you have to
ruin everything and ask Kara to marry you?”
Gentle
hands guided her shoulders back around, cupped her cheeks, and lifted her face.
Sadness filled her dad’s beautiful eyes—eyes the color of an azure sea on a
cloudless day. “I love you, Jules.” A wistful smile barely lifted his lips.
“And I love Kara too.”
Julia
tried to pull away.
Her
father held fast. “You’re twenty-three…hardly a little girl anymore. You’re a
beautiful and intelligent woman. When you least expect it, a man will come
along and capture your heart. You’ll be consumed with thoughts of him and him
alone.” He smiled a little bigger. “Maybe then you’ll understand how I feel about
Kara.”
Julia
pushed his hands away. “I can’t deal with this. I just can’t.” She ran out of
her father’s study, up the staircase that curved around the grand entryway, and
hurried into her room. The click of the door latch triggered an avalanche of
tears. Julia sat on the bed, took the framed picture of her mother from the
nightstand, and held it on her lap. “Why did God have to take you from me?
Who’ll primp my gown and fluff my veil on my wedding day? Who will I call when
my baby gets sick in the middle of the night and I don’t know what to do? Oh,
Mom, I miss you so much.” She hugged the portrait to her chest and wept more.
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Author Info
Irene Onorato was born and raised
in Bronx, New York. Her father, a first-generation American whose parents were
born in Italy, was an Army veteran who had served with the 178th combat
engineers during WWII. He told numerous stories of battles, hardships,
tragedies and triumphs. The glimpses he gave into the hearts of many American
warriors would later become the inspiration for much of Irene's writings.
In 1972, a few months after
graduating high school, Irene met James Onorato, a soldier who had just
returned from Vietnam. After dating two weeks, they married, raised three
children, and are still happily married today.
Irene and James, both radiation
protection technicians, retired from the nuclear power industry in 2014 and now
reside in Louisiana.
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