Isabella Casali is the glue that sticks her family and the Bella Rosa restaurant together, but she's neglected her heart… Under the cover of darkness, Isabella sneaks into Prince Maximilliano's forbidden palace grounds to pick herbs for the Bella Rosa signature sauce. Isabella slips and nearly drowns, and reclusive Max is forced out of the shadows to save her…. Ten years ago, Max locked his palace gates—and his heart. Now cradling this beautiful, ordinary girl in his arms is tempting him to live again.

She's single, successful...and expecting double trouble!Single and forty, Lizzie made the brave decision to have a baby—alone. A high-profile politician, she's come to the Outback away from the prying media and the Bella Rosa family feuding. Jack Lewis is the cattle station manager. A prim, pampered city girl in a designer suit is the last thing he needs. Jack's hotter than the Outback sun and Lizzie can't help noticing! But he's so not her type, and surely he isn't ready for dad duty?

Thrillseeker Valentino Casali has finally come home to Monta Correnti to face his past…and his future? Valentino is sure his childhood friend Clara Rossetti can help him forget his troubles. But she's not the same carefree girl he knew. Valentino is determined to bring back her sunny smile and give her a summer to remember! Clara's knight in shining armor has arrived on a motorbike! She wants to forget her life-threatening illness, and if anyone can make miracles happen it's Valentino!

The moment chic magazine editor Jackie arrives for her sister's Italian wedding and sees her old boyfriend Romano, her groomed facade slips...Romano Puccini's spectacular "palazzo" is an idyllically romantic setting! But before Jackie Patterson can join in the frenzy of last-minute wedding preparations and don her exquisite bridesmaid dress, she must brave Romano's heart-stopping effect on her. And unburden the seventeen-year-old secret from that fateful, sultry Italian summer...

Alex Casali cut ties with his roots long ago. Now he's a Texas cowboy. But even a Stetson can't disguise the Italian fire in his eyes.Hired to run a quilting course at the A Bar A ranch, Allie is appalled when a brooding cowboy accuses her of trespassing. Manners make a man, and strong single mom Allie wants nothing to do with arrogant Mr. Casali. But when her little daughter utters her first words in a year to Alex, Allie begins to wonder whether there's more behind his smoldering gray eyes than she first thought.

Scarlett's back in Italy to turn her family's troubled Rosa restaurant around—and now she's the boss of the man she loved and lost!The moment head chef Lorenzo Nesta hears the familiar clack of stiletto on stone floor, a shiver of anticipation runs up his spine. Seeing Scarlett's Italian passion stifled inside a staid suit fills him with regret; it had been his actions years ago that had turned her soul to ice. "What will happen when ice meets fire in the kitchen?"

The private life of baseball superstar Angelo ""The Angel"" Casali is a mystery, but sources say a reunion with his estranged father is his reason for returning to Italy. And now that he's been seen stepping off the plane with stunning—and scandalous—starlet Atlanta Jackson, he has added fuel to the media fire. After his latest injury, Angelo's career is in its final inning. Is this notorious playboy ready to settle down? Something tells us we haven't heard the last of our Angel…!

When firefighter Cristiano Casali is injured on duty, there is only one place he can think of to recover—Monta Correnti, his home...Estranged from his feuding family and still wounded, Cristiano finds it difficult to start living again—until he meets pretty, warmhearted Mariella and the adorable baby she cares for, Dante.... As Mariella helps Cristiano recuperate and reunite with his family she realizes that "she" wants a family, too—with Cristiano!