Love & Gelato

A summer in Italy becomes an unforgettable journey through Tuscany in this sweeping New York Times bestseller filled with romance, mystery, and adventure.

Sixteen-year-old Lina travels to Tuscany for the summer, but she’s hardly excited about the trip. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she finally meet the father she’s never known. After all, what kind of father stays away for sixteen years? Lina would rather return home than spend the summer surrounded by Italy’s sunshine and postcard-perfect scenery.

Everything changes when Lina receives a journal her mother kept while living in Italy years earlier. As she reads, Lina is drawn into a captivating world of secret romances, art-filled streets, and tucked-away bakeries. Inspired by the stories—and with the help of the charming Ren—Lina begins retracing her mother’s steps across Tuscany, searching for answers.

But what starts as a journey through her mother’s past soon uncovers a long-buried secret—one that could transform everything Lina believed about her mother, her father, and even herself.

People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more.