What happens when a curvaceous redhead – descended on her father’s side from convicts – inherits a rundown Italian vineyard and villa that everyone expected would go to her relative, who is aristocratic, spoilt and devastatingly handsome? Alessandro and flame-haired Annabella are second cousins and haven’t seen each other since a happy holiday when he was 17 and she was 12. But 13 years later their great-grandfather makes a crazy death-bed decision and leaves his estate in fabulous Tuscany to Annabella. The old man’s final testament drives a wedge between the cousins. Alessandro has lived at Casa dei Fiori all his life while Annabella – fresh from a struggling wheat and sheep farm in Western Australia – has only spent a few weeks in Italy. When Annabella arrives at the Casa in her denim shorts and Doc Martens to take her rightful place as heiress, she has every man in the village eating out of her hand. Every man except Allesandro, that is.
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