Mel, visiting a Southern Italian resort, sits at a seaside café when a man appears, bringing forth memories from log ago. It’s Vann, a musician she had a one-night stand with fourteen years ago. But she is pulled from her reverie by her daughter, who is almost drowning in the sea. When Mel cries out, Vann jumps into the water and saves her daughter. Mel thanks him, nervously wondering if he remembers her. However, he doesn’t seem to and even tries to seduce her when they meet again for work!

Wealthy, incredibly sexy Italian entrepreneur Danilo Spinozzi zooms into Lucy Luxton’s life on a motorcycle one quiet afternoon, and she can’t keep her mind or eyes off him. The people of Ravello, a small town on the Amalfi Coast where she is studying jewelry design, warn her that he is the town’s bad boy and a ruthless womanizer, but how can Lucy keep her distance when he is the one man who looks beyond her shy, plump exterior and sees the sensuous and creative woman about to bloom? Devastated by the one woman in his life who should have loved and protected him, Danillo Spinozzi has had good reason to avoid long-term commitment. But after he takes one look at Lucy and basks in her kindness and unassuming, voluptuous beauty, he needs to make her his for more than a handful of nights. She’s a girl who deserves to be treated right, a tall order when he’s left a trail of broken female hearts behind. He’s going to have to do something he’s never done before—stay and woo her. Even though Lucy knows she’s due to return home to England at the end of August and that Danilo will move on to his next conquest, she can’t resist him… Or has Danilo really changed his ways for good?

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?

Will Mel reveal her precious secret? Advertising executive Mel Sheraton has her life under control and she likes it that way. But then a trip to Italy brings her face to face with the past in the gorgeous, predatory form of one–time sex god, now millionaire businessman, Vann Capella. Swept away in the sultry Italian heat, Mel can feel her life falling apart. If she spends time with Vann she risks him learning her deepest secret. But now she's rediscovered the explosive passion they once shared, how can she live without it?

As a young child in Naples, Italy, Sergio Esposito sat at his kitchen table observing the daily ritual of his large, loud family bonding over fresh local dishes and simple country wines. While devouring the rich bufala mozzarella, still sopping with milk and salt, and the platters of fresh prosciutto, sliced so thin he could see through it, he absorbed the profound relationship of food, wine, and family in Italian culture. Growing up in Albany, New York, after emigrating there with his family, he always sat next to his uncle Aldo and sipped from his wineglass during their customary hours-long extended family feasts. Thus, from a very early age, Esposito came to associate wine with the warmth of family, the tastes of his mother’s cooking—and, above all, memories of his former life in Italy. When he was in his twenties, he headed for New York and undertook a career in wine, beginning a journey that would culminate in his founding of Italian Wine Merchants, now the leading Italian wine source in America. His career offered him the opportunity to make frequent trips back to Italy to find wine for his clients, to learn the traditions of Italian winemaking, and, in so doing, to rediscover the Italian way of life he’d left behind. Passion on the Vine is Esposito’s intimate and evocative memoir of his colorful family life in Italy, his abrupt transition to life in America, and of his travels into the heart of Italy—its wine country—and the lives of those who inhabit it. The result is a remarkably engaging and entertaining wine/travel narrative replete with vivid portraits of seductive places—the world-famous cellars of Piedmont, the sweeping estates of Tuscany, the lush fields of Campania, the chilly hills of Friuli, the windy beaches of Le Marche; and of memorable people, diverse and vibrant wine artisans—from a disco-dancing vintner who bases his farming on the rhythm of the moon to an obsessive prince who destroys his vineyards before his death so that his grapes will never be used incorrectly. Esposito’s luscious accounts of the wonderful food and wine that are so much a part of Italian life, and his poignant and often hilarious stories of his relationships with his family and Italian friends, make Passion on the Vine an utterly unique and enchanting work about Italy and its eternally seductive lifestyle.

Dark, handsome and impossibly wealthy surgeon Carlo Santini can have any woman he wants. But working alongside nurse Suzannah Wilde at St. Catherine's hospital, it's hard for him to deny the sexual attraction simmering between them!

One night of passion changes everything.... Business tycoon Damien Alfieri will never forget her. Six years ago, he searched for the woman who gave him undeniable pleasure. Damien finally gives up and tries to move on with his life. But when he encounters Jemma unexpectedly on a farm in the hills of Virginia, he knows that he won't let her go this time. Jemma has other plans... Damien's appearance after so many years rocks Jemma’s comfortable and simple existence. She's determined to keep their one night in the past while hiding the truth of that night. So much more came out of their magical night than just a broken heart, and Jemma refuses to admit her secret. Damien is determined to uncover the reason for her distance. As they begin to grow closer, Jemma knows that she must reveal the truth--even if it means she may lose the most important person in her life. Will Damien's return destroy everything Jemma built or will the truth of the past build a new future for all of them together?

He will bed her… Elise Carlton is looking forward to having her freedom. Years as a trophy wife have left her wary. But there is one man to whom she is not immune…. For revenge and for pleasure! Vincente Farnese is rich and devastatingly handsome, his own special brand of dark Italian temptation! But it is no coincidence that Vincente has sought out Elise. What will she do when she discovers he wants her only for revenge?

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Passion, drama, and undeniable chemistry heat up the holidays for a midwife and a sexy doctor with a secret in this romance by a USA Today bestseller. Dark, handsome, and impossibly wealthy surgeon Carlo Santini can have any woman he wants. But working alongside nurse Suzannah Wilde at St. Catherine’s hospital, it’s hard for him to deny the sexual attraction simmering between them! Zan knows Carlo is holding something back from her, but all the same invites him to spend the festive season with her; only to discover that the caring baby doctor by day is a passionate, demanding lover by night. . . .