Running from heartache…

only to find a second chance where she least expects it?

There’s no place like home for brokenhearted Justine Winter. Until her sanctuary comes under threat from property developer Casson Forrester. Determined not to let anyone take advantage of her again, Justine goes head-to-head with the formidable millionaire but must resist his charms! For the man she glimpses beneath the brooding exterior could be far more of a threat—to her heart…

At three years of age, Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli immigrated from Calabria, Italy, to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada with her family. During her teaching career, she received four OECTA (Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association) Best Practice Awards for her unique strategies in early literacy and other initiatives. An alumna of the Humber School for Writers, her writing has been published in nineteen anthologies. Her novel, La Brigantessa, published in 2018, won a Gold Medal for Historical Fiction in the 2019 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards. La Brigantessa was also finalist for the 2019 Canadian Authors Association Fred Kerner Book Award and the 2019 Northern Lit Award. Her children's book, Pumpkin Orange, Pumpkin Round, was published in the fall of 2019, and she has published two novels with Harlequin UK (2018, 2020). She lives in Sudbury.

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"The background story of Casson was so well written and may just break your heart." -Harlequin Junkie