The Italian Fake Date. Calabrian Coast Series, #1

Escape to Calabria with this 'terrific tale of mystery and romance, set in Italian sunshine'. The Calabrian Coast books are standalone stories that intertwine with recurring characters. When Alice Baker discovers that she's been adopted, she knows she won't have peace until she's found her Italian birth mother. But all she has is a letter written twenty-five years ago and an old address. Jaded about love and unable to forgive his ex-fiancée and his brother, Paolo Rondino is struggling to find inspiration for a sculpture that will make or break his career.
Hoping that a trip home will help him find his muse again, he decides to return to Italy, even if this means confronting the two people who betrayed him. Alice and Paolo strike a deal: he will help her find her birth mother and she will pretend to be his girlfriend to please his mother. It looks like the perfect exchange, until real feelings start to grow.