Parris is giving away ten copies of her novella, Ravished, set on a Mexican beach, to ten Fresh Fiction fans who answer this question: Who was the only prisoner to escape from the Doge's Palace's prison in Venice. Hint: His name is synonymous with 'womanizer.'

Ravished

Nelli Walzchak was a no-nonsense nurse at Kansas General Hospital, but her personal life was virtually nonexistent . . . until an enforced Mexican vacation altered her life's course - and she found herself kidnapped by a dashing buccaneer and learned that ravished could mean not only to take away by violence but also to fill with pleasure.

Check out the photos Parris took this past September, when she took five of her ten grandchildren to Italy. The first photo is of Parris wading on the Mediterranean beach at Amalfi; the second is of the five grandchildren in Venice.