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Already haunted by a youth of illegitimacy and poverty, Valente Lorenzatto has never forgiven Caroline Hales' abandonment of him at the altar.But now Valente has made millions and claimed his aristocratic Venetian birthright, and he’s poised to buy Caroline's family – lock, stock and barrel. So she’ll have to submit to his revenge! Perhaps his new-found wealth and lineage will soften her up when he demands that she give him their wedding night – for which he’s waited five long years…

12 stories, 12 characters, 6 men, 6 women. It begins in 2015 and each story represents a country further east and 10 years before the previous one, until it goes around the world. In all of them, sex beats as a life force.Beat by beat, full of bodily sensitivity, twelve characters, six women and six men, enter worlds where reason is overwhelmed by passion, diving into the past on a continuous journey to the east. At every stop you will face real people, patients with social diseases that make our planet such a complex and sometimes inhospitable world. Sex made into fantasy as a vital impulse will be the constant that will animate the development of your existence. An impressive voyeuristic visit to the last century of our history.