He has every reason to hate her... Millionaire Italian Ettore Severini was ready to marry--until he learned that Sophie Lang's innocent sensuality disguised a petty thief! No reason to trust her... When Ettore saw Sophie again, she was living in desperate poverty--with a baby. She denied the child was Ettore's--but then she denied the theft, too.... And the best reason to marry her! Ettore had never forgotten her. Now marriage would bring him his son...revenge...and Sophie, at his mercy!

After losing her home, Sophie is walking in the rain, pushing her son in his stroller. While she’s looking for directions, she slips and falls in the gutter, almost getting hit by a car. Miserable, she looks up into the eyes of the man who stepped out of the car. It’s Ettore, the man she fell in love with and who falsely accused her of being a jewelry thief! Sophie feels desperate, shaken after their cruel reunion, and that’s before he mocks her for her misfortune. She absolutely cannot let this coldhearted man know about Torry, his son!

An Italian tycoon’s ploy to secure the family fortune leads to genuine passion with his fake fiancé in this sexy international romance. Ivo Greco is determined to claim his orphaned nephew—the infant who will inherit the Greco fortune. To do so, he needs to convince the baby’s legal guardian, fiery Flora Henderson, to wear his ring. But whisking Flora to Tuscany as his fake fiancée comes with a complication . . . their undeniable chemistry! A permanent marriage was never in the cards for coolheaded Ivo—until now!

Kelly works as a nanny for a lovely family, and when they go on vacation, she gets a bit of time to herself at their house in Italy. Her relaxation time by herself is cut short, however, when a stranger walks up to her with a tire iron. Is he a criminal, a sailor or someone else? Turns out Kelly will have to quickly learn the life of royalty, because he’s Count Gianfranco Maldini!

Knowing that the powerful Verdi family can easily take her baby son away if they wish, Portia Makepeace has no choice but to go with Lucenzo Verdi to his home in Italy. He obviously thinks she is a gold digger, but to her horror Portia finds herself falling in love with him! So when he offers to make her his bride does he believe in Portia's innocence, or are there other motives behind his hot-blooded embrace?

One of the Wall Street Journal's "Six More Books to Read This Winter" • "Required Reading,"The New York Post• Library Journal's "Spring/Summer Bests" of 2018 •A Sonoma Index-Tribune Bestseller •One of CrimeReads' "Debuts to Discover Spring 2018" "Deeply funny." —The New York Times Book Review podcast "[A] sweltering thriller set against the backdrop of what is probably your dream getaway destination: Tuscany." —Bustle "Tremendous fun! Wives with big secrets, husbands with bigger ones, swirling around a 1950s Siena teeming with seduction and spycraft." —Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Travelers "Seeing the "antiquated" culture of postwar/Cold War Italy through the eyes of Americans, obsessed with modern convenience and progress, sort of mirrors my Italy to America transition in a fun way—plus there are spies! Affairs! and lot of food!!" —Giada De Laurentiis "Imagine Beautiful Ruins plus horses; Toujours Provence with spies, a mystery and sex. The Italian Party is a fizzy, page-turning delight that begs for a Campari and soda!" —Julia Claiborne Johnson, author of Be Frank With Me “I’ve always wanted to take a trip to Italy in the 1950’s and The Italian Party is my ticket. Like the best Italian paintings, this smart and funny book deftly combines the light and the dark. Christina Lynch’s prose pairs well with any hearty Tuscan red.” —Conan O'Brien Newly married, Scottie and Michael are seduced by Tuscany's famous beauty. But the secrets they are keeping from each other force them beneath the splendid surface to a more complex view of ltaly, America and each other. When Scottie’s Italian teacher—a teenager with secrets of his own—disappears, her search for him leads her to discover other, darker truths about herself, her husband and her country. Michael’s dedication to saving the world from communism crumbles as he begins to see that he is a pawn in a much different game. Driven apart by lies, Michael and Scottie must find their way through a maze of history, memory, hate and love to a new kind of complicated truth. Half glamorous fun, half an examination of America's role in the world, and filled with sun-dappled pasta lunches, prosecco, charming spies and horse racing, The Italian Party is a smart pleasure.

Catherine has been living half a globe away from her husband, Vito, for three years now. For as long as he can remember, their son, Santos, has never seen his mother and father together. Vito was looking forward to the next of Santos’s periodic visits, but his new lover, Marietta, isn’t happy about having Santos in the picture. To protect Santos from Marietta’s cruelty, Vito hatches a plan to live together with his wife and son as a family once more. Though her old wounds haven’t healed and the fire of their love has long since gone cold, Catherine finds her heart racing at Vito’s touch. Are they living together for Santos’s sake alone?

Millionaire Nash Connaught knew something about Faith that could cost her her job. And he was holding the dark secret over her head.... He had never meant to blackmail her into bed! But the temptation they both felt had been too strong.... Faith was--had been--a virgin. Nash's reaction was to insist on marriage. But was he marrying Faith for honor? Or was it part of his revenge for something that had happened between them ten years ago?

Eligible bachelor Rafaelle Villani is used to loving his women…and leaving them. Until his freedom is compromised by a candid newspaper photo, which suggests he has finally fallen…for Rachel Carmichael. Soon the world's press is reporting their engagement! Rafaelle claims his fake fiancée; twenty-four hours later Rachel has been passionately seduced—and fears she has conceived his baby. So, Rafaelle demands that Rachel pretend to be his future bride!