My Favorite Kidnapper

Brianna is a baker, and she has no patience for a stranger who touches one of her confectionary creations. She tells him off. The stranger, Dante, is delighted by this, and even more delighted by her cake.

He does not ask her to come work for him. He takes her to Italy to bake, and he brings her cat along to soften the blow. Brianna has her own word for what he has done, and it is kidnapping.

Dante now has to persuade her to stay and to drop that word. He would rather she called him her lover, but that waits until she stops wishing him dead in his sleep.

The book is a romantic comedy with an opposites-attract pairing, a grumpy hero and a sunny heroine. Everything takes place in an Italian villa, so the two cannot avoid each other. Quick, playful banter drives the pages, and the tone stays comic throughout. It opens the My Favorite series by Melanie Moreland.

The open question is whether a man who took what he wanted can win over the woman he took it from.