When libel lawyer Tom Hadleigh acquires a perfect holiday home, a 14th century house in Umbria, there?s a slight problem: Tom can?t speak a word of Italian.

Enter Evie Shaw, masquerading as an agency temp but in reality the newest reporter for gossip magazine Pure Dirt. Unbeknownst to Tom, Italian-speaking Evie has been sent to write an expos? on him. But she didn?t count on her subject being drop-dead gorgeous?