Love & Gelato

Jenna Evans Welch

Book 1 of Love & Gelato

After her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Lina is sent to spend the summer in Tuscany with the father she's never known. Grieving and out of place, she stumbles onto her late mother's old journal from her own youthful summer in Florence, and begins retracing her mother's footsteps through the city while slowly bonding with a charming Italian boy next door. Along the way Lina uncovers long-buried family secrets and starts to find her own place in a country that once belonged to her mother. It's a coming-of-age story blending grief, mystery, and first love against an Italian backdrop.