The only man who can help her is the last man she wants to see.

Anabel Newsome spent ten years on her dream career. It took one email to destroy it, and now she is willing to do anything to get it back. 

Even work with Luca, the grumpy-but-gorgeous painter who broke her heart ten years ago.

The plan is simple: Agree to a three-month leave of absence for the “burnout” she swears she doesn’t have. Return to the sunshine-soaked coast of Italy, find her supposed bliss, and convince her boss she’s ready to come back to work.

What isn’t in the plan is discovering that the hostel she loved in her twenties is falling apart. Maybe it’s because that’s something she and the building have in common, or maybe it’s just because she’s incapable of taking a break, but Ana is determined to save it. And Luca, as the hostel handyman, is going to help. Whether he likes it or not!

Between renovations that go sideways, a new summer fling that complicates things, and a decade-old wound she never quite let heal, Ana’s carefully planned trip is quickly going off the rails. But the beach vacation she never wanted might just be her second chance to make the right choice.

About The Author 

Rose Graceling-Moore has spent over fifteen years in entertainment journalism, writing, editing, and eventually getting into content strategy. However, before becoming a full-time writer, she was a stripper and camgirl - which taught her all her spicy skills (and a whole lot of surprising life skills, too)! Rose now lives a Hallmark-worthy life in cottage country, Ontario, writing romance and magical realism in a ramshackle little farmhouse with her partner (the town baker), a cat who hates humans (good judgment on her part), and many plans to add bees and chickens to the family.

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