Under the Bella Luna: A Spicy Italian Family Romance (That’s Amore!)

She built Bella Luna from family recipes. He knows how to open every door except the one that matters.

Antonia Bartoli has spent years keeping Bella Luna alive with recipes her grandmother brought from Italy, stubborn hope, and more sacrifice than anyone in her loud Catholic family realizes.

The catering company is supposed to be her future. Instead, it is drowning under debt, family obligations, and the dream she keeps putting off: one day opening a restaurant of her own.

Then Brett Anderson hires Bella Luna for a corporate event.

He is old money, Ivy League, impossible to please, and far too used to getting what he wants. Antonia should dislike him. She almost does. But beneath the tailored suits and sharp commands is a man who sees her talent too clearly to look away.

When Brett quietly sends elite clients her way, Bella Luna begins to breathe again. Gratitude turns into dinner. Dinner turns into one unforgettable night. And one night turns into the kind of love neither of them knows how to handle.

But Brett is not Catholic. He is not from her world. And Antonia’s family has strong opinions about husbands, faith, children, and the kind of man allowed at their table.

So Antonia walks away.

Brett lets her go. Then he does what he does best: finds another way in.

Through her father’s work, her mother’s community, and her grandmother’s elder center, Brett begins earning a place in the family that rejected him before they ever knew him. But when Antonia discovers the side doors he has opened, she has to decide whether his love is devotion, control, or both.

To keep her, Brett must learn to stand beside her instead of arranging her life.

And Antonia must decide whether choosing love means losing her family, or finally choosing herself.

Under the Bella Luna is a spicy contemporary romance about food, family, faith, old money, second chances, and the kind of love that has to be chosen honestly.