Anna is twenty-one, freshly graduated, and determined to prove she's a real adult, despite living in a loud, loving Italian-Swedish household where everyone knows your business before you do. When her glamorous sister announces an engagement and insists on a romantic wedding in Bologna, Anna's already bracing for family chaos, overbearing relatives, and the kind of "hospitality" that comes with five meals a day.
Then there's Michael Wright, her boss. Twenty-eight, wealthy, guarded, and stuck in a polished relationship that looks good on paper but feels empty in real life.
Anna was meant to be a capable employee, not the woman who gets under his skin... or the one he can't stop thinking about.
When Michael and his father end up woven into Anna's family trip to Italy, pulled into farm life, homemade feasts, and relatives who treat privacy like a myth, Anna and Michael make a deal: a no-strings summer fling, just long enough to survive the wedding madness.
But Italy has a way of turning stolen kisses into something dangerously real... and once the plane lands back in New York, reality doesn't "translate" so easily. He's still her boss. Their lives still don't match. And Anna's heart isn't built for half-measures.
Lost in Translation is a funny, heartfelt, swoony romance about two people from different worlds who discover that sometimes love isn't about saying the right words, it's about choosing each other anyway.
Tropes & vibes: boss/employee tension, "vacation fling" that turns serious, meddling family, Italy setting, humor + heat, dual POV.