Villa Fortuna - Pride, Prejudice, & a Haircut
A laugh-out-loud contemporary romance novel. Discover the prideful misunderstandings and holiday magic of Villa Fortuna where three sisters from Little Italy collide with the country club set ... at a hair salon.Dr. Elizabeth Fairchild lived an orderly and focused life in Los Angeles until ...an unexpected death, a questionable inheritance, and an eighty-year-old Mafia vendetta required a trip home to New York City's Little Italy neighborhood in the Bronx. After thirteen years of running from her Italian-American upbringing, Elizabeth dreaded returning to the ethnic world of colorful hand gestures, passionate arguments, and living with her two stereotypical sisters in their rundown apartment above a bakery.Her plan: get in, take care of business, celebrate Christmas, and then escape as quickly as possible. However, returning to the Bronx assailed the senses like her mother's lasagna. She didn't count on Italian pastry, homemade wine, a beauty parlor, and the enticement of a dashing plastic surgeon known as Michelangelo.Will Elizabeth flee her childhood home where the foundation of faith and famiglia is so strong? Or will she stay and embrace all the traditions that once embarrassed her? Should she succumb or resist her elder sister's admonishment,"Your home is where your heart is, and we are your heart-marinara, cannolis, the church, and the family! The whole shebang!"
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Villa Fortuna - Pride, Prejudice, & a Haircut
A laugh-out-loud contemporary romance novel. Discover the prideful misunderstandings and holiday magic of Villa Fortuna where three sisters from Little Italy collide with the country club set ... at a hair salon.Dr. Elizabeth Fairchild lived an orderly and focused life in Los Angeles until ...an unexpected death, a questionable inheritance, and an eighty-year-old Mafia vendetta required a trip home to New York City's Little Italy neighborhood in the Bronx. After thirteen years of running from her Italian-American upbringing, Elizabeth dreaded returning to the ethnic world of colorful hand gestures, passionate arguments, and living with her two stereotypical sisters in their rundown apartment above a bakery.Her plan: get in, take care of business, celebrate Christmas, and then escape as quickly as possible. However, returning to the Bronx assailed the senses like her mother's lasagna. She didn't count on Italian pastry, homemade wine, a beauty parlor, and the enticement of a dashing plastic surgeon known as Michelangelo.Will Elizabeth flee her childhood home where the foundation of faith and famiglia is so strong? Or will she stay and embrace all the traditions that once embarrassed her? Should she succumb or resist her elder sister's admonishment,"Your home is where your heart is, and we are your heart-marinara, cannolis, the church, and the family! The whole shebang!"
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Villa Fortuna - Pride, Prejudice, & a Haircut

Villa Fortuna - Pride, Prejudice, & a Haircut

by Cat Gardiner
Villa Fortuna - Pride, Prejudice, & a Haircut

Villa Fortuna - Pride, Prejudice, & a Haircut

by Cat Gardiner

Overview

A laugh-out-loud contemporary romance novel. Discover the prideful misunderstandings and holiday magic of Villa Fortuna where three sisters from Little Italy collide with the country club set ... at a hair salon.Dr. Elizabeth Fairchild lived an orderly and focused life in Los Angeles until ...an unexpected death, a questionable inheritance, and an eighty-year-old Mafia vendetta required a trip home to New York City's Little Italy neighborhood in the Bronx. After thirteen years of running from her Italian-American upbringing, Elizabeth dreaded returning to the ethnic world of colorful hand gestures, passionate arguments, and living with her two stereotypical sisters in their rundown apartment above a bakery.Her plan: get in, take care of business, celebrate Christmas, and then escape as quickly as possible. However, returning to the Bronx assailed the senses like her mother's lasagna. She didn't count on Italian pastry, homemade wine, a beauty parlor, and the enticement of a dashing plastic surgeon known as Michelangelo.Will Elizabeth flee her childhood home where the foundation of faith and famiglia is so strong? Or will she stay and embrace all the traditions that once embarrassed her? Should she succumb or resist her elder sister's admonishment,"Your home is where your heart is, and we are your heart-marinara, cannolis, the church, and the family! The whole shebang!"

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781517552626
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 12/03/2015
Pages: 342
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Cat Gardiner loves romance and happy endings, history, comedy, and Jane Austen. A member of the esteemed National League of American Pen Women and a PAN member of Romance Writers of America, she enjoys writing across the spectrum of the romance genre from Pride and Prejudice-inspired Contemporary novels to Chick-Lit Romantic Comedy and 20th Century Historical Fiction.



Her greatest love is writing Historical Fiction, WWII-era Romance. Her debut novel in this sub genre, A Moment Forever, was a 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award Romance Finalist. She is currently working on her second novel in the Liberty Victory Collection.




Connect with Cat here:
* facebook.com/cat.t.gardiner
* cgardiner1940s.com
* twitter.com/40sexperience
* twitter.com/VPPressNovels
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