Billy London - Italian Knights (01-05)

Book 1: Windows:
Don't touch the hot Italian was a mantra Gina Robinson had spent the last ten years repeating to herself about her best friend, Nick Da Canaveze. She had to repeat it often, as Nick was hot beyond all reason. With a crazy-built body, a wicked sense of humor, and brains, he was the kind of man who could bring a woman pleasure with little more than a sideways glance. She had to give herself a slap on the wrist whenever she caught herself looking. And she looked...a lot.
Everyone knew how Nick felt about Gina. Everyone except for Gina. Ten years was a long time to wait for the girl you love to get a clue, especially when it only took him a month to realise he wanted to worship at the altar of her body every day for the rest of his life.
Best friends for a decade, they shared everything...except what his family really did for a living. Impatient at the best of times, Nick kept telling himself to wait for the right time to reveal the truth. Then an incident that put Gina in real danger made him realise he was done waiting around. It also made him admit what everyone else already knew: Gina was unequivocally his. No one else was going to sweep in and take what belonged to him. Da Canavezes never let anyone take from them, and only those who wanted to meet God sooner rather than later attempted such a thing.

Book 2: On Caristo’s Watch:
Tony Caristo was just minding his own business, waiting for his selfish bullet-magnet of a best friend to get out of surgery, when the sexiest nurse he'd ever seen walked right up to him, all luscious figured. All she was missing was a fig leaf and a snake around her shoulders. Rather than offering him the knowledge of the gods, she told him off with an Irish-lilted wit.

Book 3: The Claim:
Rocco Mamione has possibly the best wingman in the world—his grandmother. He had no idea that when his nonna was fired from the job she’d had for thirty years, she’d demand the best employment lawyer in London. And that lawyer just happens to be his ex-girlfriend. His Nonna had been giving him the “where are my great-grandbabies goo-goo eyes for some time now. The only person he’d ever imagined having those with was Anna. To get her back will be the ultimate challenge, but Rocco is nothing if not Sicilian resilient.

Book 4: Best Laid Plans:
If someone is too good to be true, it’s usually because they’re trying to keep the doors shut on a closet straining with skeletons. That’s always rung true with Francesca Abbey, even though she doesn’t want to be a skeptic. It doesn’t help that she’s in the wrong profession, her past relationships have been disastrous and her mother? Hardly Claire Cosby. But there’s something about Luca, a gentle giant who enters stage left as if he was just waiting for the right time.

Book 5: A Life Sublime:
Belinda Afriyie is only in the Neapolitan Riviera for the wedding of her best friend’s daughter, never mind the fact that she bullied her way into it, mostly out of guilt for not being the mother figure that she should have been. At the very least, she had to make sure that Gina Robinson did her Ghanaian duty in marrying Nick Da Canaveze, even if Belinda had to get on a plane, pay excess baggage and suffer the heat for it. There would be no time for sightseeing, lounging around infinity pools and definitely no time for flirting with anyone. Especially not The Big Man, who was as troublesome as his son. The twinkle in Massimo Da Canaveze’s eyes told her that he was more than just trouble. He was a huge, fat God-like sign of what was missing from her life. Of just how glorious life could be with someone like him in it... But a man like him would never give her a side glance. It was fine. The wedding celebrations would last all of four days and she’d be off home. No looking. No touching. No flirting. None of that was good for her or her ego.