Rigid. Structured. Predictable.

Sarah Buchanan would never have used those words to describe herself in a million years. Never. But it’s been almost a year since her long-time girlfriend left her for a man and she’s suddenly realized that those words now describe her with frightening accuracy, along with one more: boring. After an unfortunate incident of drunk dialing, Sarah decides she will do anything to escape her disaster of a life, so she takes the offer of a temporary position with her company overseas. Leaving her belongings and her blue-eyed dog, Bentley, in what she thinks are the capable hands of her family, she flees as fast as she possibly can.

Natalie Fox is the polar opposite of Sarah. She’s flighty, spontaneous, and lives in The Now. It’s the way her parents raised her and for better or worse, Natalie loves her modest life. She lives above a sweet little Italian bakery and coffee shop where she also works, she has friends who mean the world to her, and a heart that’s sometimes too big for her own good. When she finds a stray, skinny, terrified dog with blue eyes outside the bakery and decides to adopt him as her own, things seem just about perfect to her.

Take two opposite women with two stubborn personalities and an attraction for one another they’re trying desperately to ignore; throw in a couple of wise Italians, a handful of quirky friends, some homemade cannoli, and a far-too-observant dog; stir vigorously, then sit back, relax, and enjoy…

Published June 2008
ISBN 1-60282-019-8