About the book: year / Seventeen-year-old Anna spends the summer in Venice. While walking around the city, a red gondola catches her attention. Strange. Aren't all gondolas in Venice black? When Anna briefly attends a ship parade with her parents, she is pushed into the water by the crowd and is rescued by an incredibly handsome looking young man. Before she can climb back onto the dock, the air begins to tremble and the world blurs before her eyes..