Award-winning author Gina Iafrate has released her latest romantic fiction novel, 'Love And Betrayal,' now available in print and ebook formats on Amazon. The novel is the third installment in her Strong Women series, following 'The Professor's Daughter.'
'Love And Betrayal' follows the emotional journey of Gracy, who initially believes she has found true love with Alvaro. However, as her married life progresses, Alvaro's vows of fidelity are broken, leading to pain and suffering. His unfaithfulness, driven by greed, jealousy, and revenge from external influences, brings catastrophic consequences. Gracy's struggle for survival becomes a challenging emotional odyssey. Later in life, faced with solitude and despair, she finds courage through the intervention of caring people, ultimately rediscovering love, peace, and support before her journey ends.
The series' previous book, 'The Professor's Daughter,' is set in Italy and follows Gracy Robertson, the love child of an intense affair. Taken from her dying mother at birth, she is raised in hiding by her devastated father, a professor, to avoid corrupt mobsters who caused her mother's death. After the threat subsides, they seek peace at the place where her parents' love conceived her. But tragedy strikes again when the professor dies, leaving Gracy grief-stricken. She crosses the ocean to find love, but fate tests her with people and situations that threaten her peace and life, until she finds solace in her denied lover's devotion.
Gina Iafrate's Strong Women series features characters who overcome staggering odds to build lives that serve as models for women everywhere. Her sweeping family sagas allow readers to travel the globe through richly described settings, layered with intricate storylines reminiscent of writers like Nicholas Sparks and John Grisham. Her books explore the richness of human experience through finely drawn characters, often set in exotic locales.
Other books in the Strong Women series include 'The Girl From The Cornfield,' set in 1950s Italy, where Giuliana Ferrante rises above a vicious attack to build a successful life; 'The English Professor,' about a London professor's infatuation with another man's wife in Sicily; and 'Bestowed By Love And Splendour,' where a broken-hearted wife finds solace on the island of Sardinia. Iafrate also authored 'Releases From My Soul,' a collection of poems and true stories drawn from her life experiences.
Iafrate, who writes in both Italian and English, divides her time between Hollywood, Florida; Niagara, Ontario; and Europe. Her works have been exhibited at the Pier 21 Museum in Halifax and featured in Phoenix Magazine, The Horizon, and Author's Voice. She is a 2016 Book Excellence Award Finalist. For more information, visit her website at http://www.ginaiafrate.com.
