"When Anna, now living in California, is contacted by the Italian lover she knew decades before, she recalls their affair and the child she gave up for adoption. As the episode returns to haunt her--threatening the life she's built, including her marriage--the story moves back in time to her youth in Europe. Rome, 1979. Anna, twenty-two and living abroad, is involved with a man already engaged to be married. When she meets and befriends his fiancée,...

To satisfy his late father's wishes, billionaire Michael Conte must find a bride: someone who will fit into his traditional family back home in Italy --and fast, so his engaged sister will be allowed to wed. He proposes to fiery, free-spirited photographer Maggie Ryan, to play the part of his fiancée during her trip to Milan for a photo shoot. But once in Italy, sexual tension sparks the hottest no-strings-attached arrangement on any continent.

"When Nell Valenti is offered a chance to move to Tuscany to help transform an aging villa into a farm-to-table cooking school, she eagerly accepts. After all, both her job and her love life in America have been feeling stale. Plus, she'll get the chance to work under the acclaimed Italian Chef Claudio Orlandini. But Nell gets more than she bargained for when she arrives. With only a day to go until the launch dinner for the cooking school, the villa...

"Love, sisterhood, and sumptuous descriptions of la dolce vita fill the pages of Lake Como, a heartwarming story of romance, self-discovery, and the quest for truthHallie Elliot has a perfect life. She is an up-and-coming interior designer in one of San Francisco's most sought after firms, and has just recently become engaged to Peter, a brilliant young journalist. But when she stumbles upon Peter and her boss in what seems to be a compromising position,...

"Rick Montoya, eager to experience more of his Italian mother's culture, heads to Rome to start his own translation business. He's armed with curiosity and an appetite for local food and wine. Rick's maternal uncle is a Roman cop with one eye to his nephew's welfare and another to how Rick might be useful, perhaps widen his career choices. So Commissario Piero Fontana pulls Rick into an investigation: the murder of Count Umberto Zimbardi. The wealthy...

A bestselling novelist dies in his villa in Italy and his assistant flies from New York to arrange a funeral. In this way, Lucy Stark discovers a colorful world of art, aristocracy and intrigue, all of which leads to a romantic adventure with a married man. By the author of The Great Divorce.

In the mid-1950s, an American family travels to an island off the coast of Italy to make a fortune in gemstones.