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

	I winced inwardly as I prepared to hear the worst.  I simply wasn’t cut out for this sort of living, and none of the expectations that were placed upon me by my family, could I ever seem to meet.


	I gazed up at the grandfather clock that ticked endlessly, back and forth, the pendulum swinging ever swiftly.  I felt so small in comparison.  I simply couldn’t shake the feeling of being trapped in a never-ending cemetery, a ceaseless maze of tombstones with every epitaph designed for name to be engraved upon.


	Unusually, I had been permitted by Daddy (“Just this once”) to keep a python in the foyer, as my one and only beloved pet.  It had been precariously given to me as a birthday gift – Father, of course, hadn’t approved.  But he had in the end made the decision rather on a whim – so as, I suspected, to placate my nagging desires.


Chapter 19: At Work in the Sanhedrin