Dr. Isabel Favor is at her lowest. Her fiance has found someone else, her accountant has run off with her money, and her self-help empire is in shambles. She flees to Italy but disaster lies ahead in the form of actor Lorenzo Gage, Hollywood's favorite villain.

When Jane Harris and Cal Langdon accompany their best friends, Holly and Mark, on a planned elopement to Italy, they are forced to come to the rescue when the Italian government refuses to marry the pair without a special form.

The choices Casey Evers has made in her twenty-six years aren't exactly making her happy. In fact, her life is so on course - college, law school, boyfriend, job offer - that it's actually off. So, before she slides into fourteen-hour days at a Chicago law firm, she heads to Rome and Greece with her two best friends for one last hurrah. The thing is, her best friends haven't really been all that close to her since she started seeing John two years...

"Three couples, including an inspiration-seeking art student and her fiancé, a DIY couple whose home makeover needs mirror their marriage and a pair of best friend sisters-in-law who would scatter the ashes of a loved one, are drawn to the culture and allure of Rome in a tale told from the viewpoint of the city itself"--

When a failing custom wedding shoe business in Greenwich Village falls unexpectedly into her lap, apprentice Valentine Roncalli is challenged to bring her family's old-world craftsmanship into the twenty-first century. She travels with her grandmother back to Tuscany, Naples, and the isle of Capri to seek new materials and techniques.

Oliver Hughson falls in love with wild, bohemian Anna over the course of one glorious summer in Italy. Bound by a sense of responsibility to his adoptive parents back home in Canada, however, he leaves her, an act he'll regret for the rest of his life.

After his brother is killed in Vietnam, Alex Massolini drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family to travel to the small Mediterranean island of Capri, where he finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs, friendships, and rivalries.

"From on-screen friendship-- to in-person chemistry! Lone-wolf tech millionaire Caleb Kinley is waiting to meet his online best friend, Ally, in person for the first time. Inviting her to Italy was impulsive, but pretending they are dating will stop his family interfering in his love life. Only, taking their relationship offline means he can no longer keep a comfortable distance. And his instant red-hot reaction to Ally has him wondering if he...

After a disappointment in love, Rosa, once a fabled cook in her community, retreats to the solace of life as a librarian in Palermo where a mysterious chef, known only as l'Inglese, woos her and then suddenly vanishes.

"Penniless contessa Serafina Ardizzone needs to rebuild her family's crumbling palazzo in Venice, and she has just one week to persuade handsome CEO Gianni Leto to help! Neither are looking for anything more than a business relationship--this is strictly professional. But as Venice casts its spell and they dance under the moonlight in St. Mark's Square, romance is in the air... Can the next seven days together change their lives--forever?"--Back cover....