Pope Leo's daughter, Kitty, is a witch who is always engaging herself in some form of adventure -- telling stories entwined within stories. All, of course, told from behind the scenes of the Vatican.
"I looked at him with glassy eyes, regretting deeply all the time I had invested in coming to know him.  Day after day – whenever I had the urge, that is – I’d ventured forth dreamily in the outskirts of the Vatican, privately, away from my father.  Sometimes he’d even set aside special time for me to visit him, even if he was busy with “pack business.”
"But still.  Nothing.  Nothing more than the cradle of my black, dismal silence.  Screams from a primal spirit.  My Emanuel.
I knew him all too well.  He was just so out of this world.  The passion that I felt..."
Will Kitty's relationship with her father cause her to detach from her beloved Emanuel? Or will she fight for what she believes?
Vatican Nights is created by Stephanie Anne, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

Vatican Nights

	But I meant business.  And oh, how Gypsy could tell.


	But that didn’t, in any way, stop her.


	“Dear girl, calm your voice.  Enough of that din.”  Gypsy shook her head, reluctantly, hating that it had to come down to this.  “Unless you want them to snatch you away, take you to the loony bin.  A bit like some of that Victorian asylum garbage you hold in such high regard.”


	“Please,” I whispered once more, practically envisioning my fate, yet not quite able to grasp it.  My mind was in overdrive already, writing a novel that I didn’t quite know how to end.  “Stop right here.  Or you will deeply regret it.”


	But the Gypsy could not wait.  Not for one moment more.  The portion of her that would not cease, that reached, and reached, endlessly.


	“Endure me, sugar, please.  I’ll give you all that you’ve ever dreamed.  And believe me, darling, if you don’t” – Gypsy gripped me strongly by the hand – “it won’t be pretty.”


Chapter 17: Charity