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Beautiful television film set in Europe, based on a best selling book by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Starring Janine Turner, Fionnula Flanagan, Paudge Behan, it continues  to receive great reviews since its release in 1999!  Janine will autograph!

Story:   "Vanessa Steward (Turner), travels to Venice for her family's expanded line of retail stores. She meets Bill Fitzgerald (Behan), a war correspondent on a much-needed break. Bill is immediately struck by Vanessa's beauty, but she is unhappily engaged to be married to Stephen, her father's right-hand man. She welcomes Bill's company during her trip.

Bill turns out to be everything her husband to be is not, and everything she desires in a man, and as strongly as she tries to resist her attraction to him, they soon become embroiled in a passionate love affair. Upon her return home, she makes Bill promise never to contact her again. She experiences increasing friction at work and unhappiness with her fiancée, when a bouquet of flowers and a plane ticket to Dublin shows up from Bill, inviting her to meet up with him and his young daughter. Vanessa drops everything and goes.

She returns to the US to break up with Stephen, and Bill returns to the battlefield. By chance, Vanessa sees a news story about a lost news reporter, presumed dead, and is horrified to learn it's Bill. She travels to the war zone with his mother, to get details of his apparent death, where the discovery of a scarred body puts Bill's identity into question and hope prevails, in this contemporary quality television romantic drama."

Reviews:

"This is a tender and emotional story of the choices that come as the result of coincidences. A young woman uses her independent spirit to stand by her resolution to make her life count for something that she has determined to be important to her...this first choice involves her in life-changing situations which affect everyone around her. The young reporter she meets lets her see that love is something other than just settling for something that is comfortable. The results are extremes of emotion that will produce laughter as well as tears and strong emotion. This movie makes a woman yearn for this kind of love."

"This movie reminds me of the trips my husband and I have taken to Venice Italy. We saw the hotel in this movie that my husband and I stayed at which bings back so many wonderful memories of our trip. The story this movie tells keeps you glued to the screen throughout the entire movie.

I have watched this movie several times and will watch it many more times I am sure. I highly recommend this movie to those that enjoy a good romance novel or story."