Powerful Italian, Penniless Housekeeper

by India Grey

Book Overview

Though Sarah Halliday is very ordinary, her dangerously attractive new boss is not content with her scrubbing the marble floors of his Tuscan palazzo.... Instead she finds herself catapulted into Lorenzo Cavalleri's star-studded life--with a wardrobe to match Makeup masks her blushes, silk evening gowns flatter her fuller figure, but underneath Sarah's still the shy, frumpy housekeeper Lorenzo hired...and not the sophisticated bedroom siren he seems...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 037312886X
• ISBN13: 9780373128860
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Harlequin Presents
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

A romantic and award winning romance!

The very talented India Grey has written the most incredible love story with a strong heroine and an equally strong hero set in a lovely location, Tuscany in Powerful Italian, Penniless Housekeeper. The title is misleading so don't be fooled. This particular love story is simply delightful, amazing, and will have you crying buckets at the end. One is immediately introduced to Sarah Halliday and her sweet daughter Lottie. At the beginning of the book you will learn that the little girls' father is not present and is due to marry someone else. He doesn't contribute to her support which makes it doubly hard on Sarah plus the fact that her occupation as a caterer, the jobs are few and far between. During her last job she dropped the engagement cake so she's not working and money is tight. How Lorenzo and Sarah met sets the theme of the story and my heart ached. Sarah, her beautiful step-sister and friends are at a bar for a bachelorise party. One of the friends has organized a scavenger hunt and the item at the top of the list is to find an eligible bachelor. As the evening begins, Sarah by accident meets Lorenzo and they kiss but due to poor self-esteem, Sarah thinks he's laughing at her and flees. Of course he follows and sees her walking across a field and that brings to his mind the film he wants to produce based on an Englishmen's novel which was written in this very location. He's determined to get the film rights as this has been his dream for years. Do you believe in coincidence and meeting again? Ms. Grey shifts early chapters from England to Tuscany and the countryside where her sister and future husband have a farm house, and where the wedding will take place. Due to lack of money, Sarah has agreed to cater the early events and the wedding feast as her present to her sister. As fate would have it, there is a horrible storm, the roof leaks and they are forced to seek help from a nearby neighbor who turns out to be Lorenzo, the same man Sarah kissed in England. He offers his home to her family, the wedding party and guests especially when he finds out that Sarah's father is the very same man who wrote the book and she's owns those rights. Sarah is the most loveable character, she gives so much to her family and daughter. She cleans, cooks, is the most amazing mother and Lorenzo recognizes that in her. He sees both her inner and outer beauty. As the days before and after the wedding take place he does special things for both she and her daughter. And in the end, he offers her a chance to stay on in Italy as his housekeeper, hoping to soften her up so he can get the rights to her book. What he doesn't count on is how much she and her daughter will come to mean to him. Lorenzo Cavalleri is the most interesting Italian alpha. He was not the ruthless type; he was warm, creative, an accomplished film producer, recently divorced and had a few secrets. Two to be exact......his infertility and his desire for movie righ