Italy Can Bite Me (Hot Mess Summer #1)
MéLisa Ryun

There are two types of planners and chaos-makers. I, Katie Crawford, am the former—color-coded, laminated, and ready for anything. So when my fiancé dumps me for being too Type A, I do the logical fly to Italy with my cougar aunt’s senior-swingers’-bus-tour to prove I can be spontaneous.
The Loosen up. Be fun. Win my fiancé back. The Him.
Matteo Monti—ridiculously gorgeous, charming, and smug. My Italian tour guide who treats life like a never-ending holiday. He calls me Checklist. I call him Walking Red Flag. Now, thanks to some highly suspicious booking errors, we’re sharing hotel rooms, stealing kisses under Venetian stars, and fighting over who's in control ( It’s me. Obviously).
Tour Guide Rule #1: Don’t Catch Feelings.
Ciao, I’m Matteo, and I have a system. Show tourists Italy, flex my forearms, avoid emotional entanglements. Simple, right? Until I meet her—Katie—stubborn, uptight, and impossible to resist. The more I push, the harder she pushes back. And now? I'm forgetting why I ever made rules at all.
She's running from perfect. I'm hiding from forever. But on these winding Italian roads, we might just crash right into love.
A spicy, laugh-out-loud romcom about desire, detours, and what happens when life refuses to follow the itinerary. Meghan Quinn fans will love this Opposites Attract, Vacation Fling, Road Trip romance with steamy Forced Proximity and Snarky Banter as Foreplay.
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romance tags
The 'Hot Mess Summer' series
14 ratings 4.36 ·
contemporary · forced proximity · humor · boss & employee · length-long · office · friends to lovers · length-medium
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