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Widow. Sister. Mother. All those labels hung from Emmanuella Harrison, like the 'A' of shame. After so many years of playing it straight, she'd forgotten who the real Ella was. Sometimes, whenever she managed to make the severe Durante Da Canaveze smile, the sparkle of the woman she'd been a long time ago ignited in her. But the Mother label needed to be first and foremost. No messing around with sexy farmers. Farmers! Just farmers. None of that. All right, maybe a little bit of messing around. The tip doesn't count.The moment Ella drifted into Tuscany, Durante started to doubt the wisdom of his years of self-imposed solitude. With every teasing grin, backless dress and playful conversation, he fell more and more deeply under her spell. As dazzled as he is by her, Durante is convinced his history is enough to not deserve anyone, let alone someone like Ella.And yet, without the labels, without the barriers, without being afraid of what may be, no two people will ever be as perfect for each other.The penultimate story in the Italian Knights Series is all about blunt children, loud mouthed opinionated, family members, redemption in farming olives and how love can make one forgive even the most off-key of voices.

If someone is too good to be true, it's usually because they're trying to keep the doors shut on a closet straining with skeletons. That has always rung true with Francesca Abbey, even though she doesn't want to be a sceptic. It doesn't help that she's in the wrong profession, her past relationships have been disastrous and her mother? Hardly a cuddly TV show personality. But there's something about Luca, a gentle giant who enters her life stage left, as if he was just waiting for the right time. He's ridiculously gorgeous with questionable taste in shirts but impeccable taste in food. Every woman's walking fantasy. He makes her want to believe life can be the Disney Channel every day with all the sensual, explicit and downright dirty parts of HBO thrown in. Gianluca Caristo likes to think he's a practical man. It comes with the territory of his current profession and certainly helped with his former. He isn't given to flights of fancy or madcap ideas, but he would never forget the vivid dream he had after being locked up on the lies of his ex-girlfriend. When he comes face to face with his dream girl two years later, he's sold on fate, karma, serendipity-all of it. Francesca is his future. His reward in exchange for his solemn vow to never do violence again. It's a shame that everyone is testing the limits of that promise.As everything pre-Luca and Francesca does its best to derail their fledgling relationship, a future they've only imaged happens a lot faster than either of them intended. The fourth in the Italian Knights series is a front-row seat to fools rushing in, enjoying it far too much, ignoring all advice and knowing you'd do it all over again if you had the chance.

Rocco Mamione has possibly the best wingman in the world. His grandmother. He had no idea that when his nonna was fired from the job she had for thirty years, she'd demand the best employment lawyer in London. A lawyer who just happens to be his ex-girlfriend. His nonna has been giving him the "where are my great-grandbabies?" goo-goo eyes for some time and is convinced that Anna is the perfect woman to multiply those slightly unbalanced Mamione genes. Truthfully, he only ever imagined having babies with Anna. To get her back will be the ultimate challenge, but Rocco is nothing if not Sicilian-resilient.Anna Taylor is not an Ice Princess. Rocco Mamione just burned her heart to a crisp six years ago. Anyone can talk about it, if they want a biro in their eye and an invoice for the advice to shut up. Smart enough to want to avoid further heartbreak and a potential conviction for murder, Anna does her best to not be led down the Mamione path again. Definitely not by his crazy grandmother or her crack-addictive cakes. Not by Rocco's slick lines and hard body underneath those tailor-made suits. And absolutely not by the fact that she loves him. Still. After all this time. The truth about their break up may just do it.The third book in the Italian Knights series is one cup good sponge, two cups of endurance, redemption, and a lot of letting go. If only to get a bit of Sicilian...

Belinda Afriyie is only in the Neapolitan Riviera for the wedding of her best friend's daughter, never mind the fact that she bullied her way into it, mostly out of guilt for not being the mother figure that she should have been. At the very least, she had to make sure that Gina Robinson did her Ghanaian duty in marrying Nick Da Canaveze, even if Belinda had to get on a plane, pay excess baggage and suffer the heat for it. There would be no time for sightseeing, lounging around infinity pools and definitely no time for flirting with anyone. Especially not The Big Man, who was as troublesome as his son. The twinkle in Massimo Da Canaveze's eyes told her that he was more than just trouble. He was a huge, fat God-like sign of what was missing from her life. Of just how glorious life could be with someone like him in it... But a man like him would never give her a side glance. It was fine. The wedding celebrations would last all of four days and she'd be off home. No looking. No touching. No flirting. None of that was good for her or her ego.Massimo Da Canaveze is not enjoying his status as widower. He's lonely. Feeling that way had become a way of life and he could only hope that his son's wedding at his 800 year old villa where he'd be amongst everyone he loved, would bring the terrible emotion to a stop. What he didn't expect was the shrill voiced, authoritative, all commanding, arresting personality that was Belinda Afriyie to blaze through Italy in figure hugging, traditional African dresses and floaty kaftans that left little to the imagination. There hadn't been an ample bosomed challenge like her to cross his path since his late wife. With a little music, a little sunshine, more than a bit of whiskey, he and Belinda were going to become very good friends.Four Italian named puppet masters sit on the sideline of this play, throwing pizza pies to hit two half-centenarians in the eye. The Da Canaveze family is about to add to their growing number and no one is more shocked about it, than the puppets...***Additional extras: interviews with the characters and playlist***

Tony Caristo was just minding his own business, waiting for his selfish bullet-magnet of a best friend to get out of surgery, when the sexiest nurse he'd ever even imagined walked right up to him, all luscious figured, to give him a right telling off with an Irish-lilted wit. All she missed was a fig leaf and a snake around her shoulders. His interest absolutely piqued, he sets himself up to do something about her, pretty damn quick. Tony isn't a man given to waiting around for good things to happen to him. And Lydia is all good; every single, five foot eight, double F-cupped inch of her. When Lydia asks his best friend, Nick for a favour, Nick reminds him just what a useful friend he is by letting Tony handle it. And Tony cannot wait to handle all of her...Lydia Mills doesn't have any time for nonsense, especially since she's looking after her younger brother. She just needs to get him into university, without getting him killed by an ex-boyfriend she thought was well shot of. Fed up of literally trying to kick some sense into the fool, Lydia figures her only option is to have someone else do the kicking. Once she turns to Nick Da Canaveze for help as a last resort, he promptly hands her problem over to Tony Caristo to do the hard work, completely convinced that Lydia will come through it all in one piece As she takes in the eejit's stealth, intelligence, utterly inappropriate wit and gorgeous bum, Lydia soon understands Nick's confidence in his friend. Moreover, she really starts to worry what she'll do without Caristo and his busy hands when the job is done.On Caristo's Watch is the second in the Italian Knights Series, showing that behind every criminal mastermind is a woman who will drive him to distraction with a look, a quip and a dress made to start all sorts of trouble.**Added extras: interviews with the characters and playlist**

Gina Robinson has kept to the same mantra for the last decade: Don't touch the hot Italian. Okay, hug, but don't kiss. Kiss but no tongues. With her father recently departed and sympathy being rampant from said hot Italian, the mantra became less and less easy to live by. Gina wanted to stay independent and out of unrequited love. Nicholas Da Canaveze didn't make either simple.Nick had distracted himself from what his heart wanted for so long, with a long line of various women. It wasn't working. He still loved Gina. Deeply, irrevocably, forever. She didn't know everything about him. He kept secrets from her. Necessary secrets. For her good. For his good. As painful as it was to just be her friend, he couldn't bear to think what his life would be like without her altogether. And that would happen. If she knew...***PLEASE NOTE this is a re-release. There are no new scenes or new material. Added extras include interviews with the characters of Windows and On Caristo's Watch, and a soundtrack link for the story***