To Stay in Sicily: A Slow Burn Italian Romance (Love in Translation)

She had sixty days to make Sicily home. She never expected home to have blue eyes and an attitude problem.

When Natalie Russo's Italian citizenship application is brutally rejected, she has two months to find another way to stay in Sicily—or abandon the dream that brought her across an ocean. Desperate and running out of time, she turns to the one person who might help: Alessandro Leone, the grumpy lawyer who lives upstairs and clearly thinks she's just another entitled American chasing European fantasies.

Alessandro has seen idealistic foreigners come and go, leaving broken dreams and unpaid rent in their wake. But something about Natalie's stubborn refusal to give up—and her habit of kicking ancient doors when they won't cooperate—gets under his carefully guarded skin. When he reluctantly agrees to help research her family's tangled history, neither expects their partnership to uncover explosive secrets buried in Sicily's mountain villages.

As they race against bureaucratic deadlines and navigate centuries-old mysteries, forced proximity becomes stolen glances, shared dinners turn into deeper connections, and what started as legal assistance ignites into something that terrifies them both. But when Alessandro offers her a marriage of convenience to solve her problems, Natalie refuses—she won't settle for a relationship built on paperwork and pity.

Now Alessandro faces an impossible choice: let the woman he's fallen for slip away, or fight for a love that was never supposed to happen with a woman who deserves so much more than his guarded heart can offer.

Set against the sun-soaked villages and lemon groves of Sicily, this is a story about finding home in the most unexpected places—and the courage it takes to fight for both your dreams and your heart.

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Lydbog: 31. december 2025