Discount Offer for Tempesta's Dream - A Story of Love, Friendship and Opera

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In celebration of the release of my novel, Tempesta's Dream, published by Cefalutana Press, I am offering at Smashwords a 60% discount off the price for an ebook version. This will run thorough November 1st.

Go to https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/360951 and enter coupon code PV53L.

Tempesta’s Dream is the story of an aspiring opera singer coming of age in Milan; a tender and moving love story; a testament to the bonds of friendship; and, at its core, a tribute to the beauty, majesty and miracle of opera.

Giovanni Tempesta always dreamed of becoming an opera tenor and one day singing from the stage of the La Scala Opera House in his hometown of Milan, Italy. But with no real training, his dream has little chance for fulfillment . . . One day, he meets and immediately falls in love with Isabella Monterone, a dark-haired beauty, whose father, a very rich and powerful Milanese Judge, refuses to allow his daughter to date a penniless musician . . . At the lowest part of his life, Giovanni comes upon the Casa di Riposo, a rest home for musicians established by the great opera composer, Giuseppe Verdi . . . It is at the Casa Verdi that Giovanni meets Alfredo del Monte, a blind, retired opera singer with a secretive past who gradually becomes his mentor . . . Could Alfredo be the one person who could assist Giovanni in finding the break he needs? Or is Giovanni destined to be on the cusp of reaching his life long dream, only to find failure? . . . Tempesta's Dream, at its core, is an Italian opera love story. The author tells the story simply and swiftly with an ending that is both an emotional and poignant moment of both "amicizia e amore".

Here are a few comments from advance readers:

“The author’s contagious love of opera and his faith in human decency sing through this loveable page-turner of a story.”
-Susan Nicassio, Author of Tosca’s Rome

“Within a very moving story of romance and friendship, the author has created a realistic portrait of a young singer’s pursuit of an operatic career. This lovely tale allows one to acquire an understanding of and an affection for opera.”
-Audrey Schuh Redmann, Soprano

I hope you enjoy the read.

Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco