The First Kiss

Alessia Cavalii is a rising star in the competitive international wine scene, and one of only twenty-six female master sommeliers in the world. Her home is a gorgeous, renovated winery on the sun-soaked southern coast of Italy, she has a career she adores, and she has finally managed to end a long-term toxic relationship. But Alessia is hiding a dangerous secret—and she's edging dangerously closer to losing the beautiful life she's worked so hard to create.
Parker Haven is a captain in the US Army and stationed at the NATO military camp in Italy. A detective with the military police, she's recruited to help solve a string of murders in the city and becomes inexplicably drawn into Alessia's world. As the intrigue surrounding the case—and Alessia—spins dangerously out of control, Parker must choose between her military career and the woman she's falling in love with.
How can we be sure we truly know the people we love? Reprint. Previously published as The Last First Kiss.

Patricia Evans is currently writing your new favorite novel in her hand-built tiny house, nestled deep in the forest, where she's surrounded by a bevy of raccoons and a sleepy brown bear named Waddles.
She travels to Ireland and Scotland several times a year in search of the perfect whiskey and cigar combination and spends most of her time trying to ignore the characters from her books that boss her around as she writes by the fire.