A FRESH York Moments bestseller

A summer in Italy becomes a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping debut novel filled with romance, mystery, and adventure.

Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the disposition for Italy’s famous sunlight and fairy-tale scenery. She’s just there since it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her dad. But the type of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina really wants to perform is reunite home.

But Lina is given a journal about Love & Gelato that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Instantly Lina’s uncovering a marvelous world of key romances, artwork, and concealed bakeries. A global that inspires Lina, combined with the ever-so-charming Ren, to check out in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a magic formula that has been kept for far too long. It’s a secret that will transformation everything Lina knew about her mom, her father-and even herself.

People come to Italy for love and gelato, somebody tells her, but sometimes they discover much more.

Kirkus Evaluations called Love & Gelato “a sure bet for fans of romance fiction,” while VOYA said readers “will see it difficult to put this book down.” Readers are going to discover a brand-new place, a new romance, and a fresh talent.