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The Taste of Staying
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 17 2026
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
She came to Ravello to write about a place. She never expected it to change what home meant.
Travel journalist Mia Hartwell has built a life around leaving.
New cities. New stories. New assignments. No roots deep enough to hold her when it's time to move on.
Then she arrives in Ravello.
Perched above the Amalfi Coast, the Italian town is supposed to be one more destination-and Luca Moretti is supposed to be one more interview. A gifted chef with a fierce attachment to his family, his restaurant, and the place that shaped him, Luca has spent his life building something worth staying for.
Mia has spent hers making sure nothing can keep her.
But somewhere between crowded kitchens, late-night conversations, sun-warmed terraces, and days that begin as work and become something else entirely, the distance between them disappears.
Until the opportunity Mia has wanted for years finally arrives.
It could change her career. It could send her around the world. And accepting it means confronting the question she has avoided for most of her life:
What if loving someone doesn't require choosing between the life you built and the life you didn't know you wanted?
Set against the breathtaking beauty of Italy's Amalfi Coast, The Taste of Staying is a contemporary romance about ambition, belonging, the courage to love without losing yourself-and discovering that sometimes staying isn't about standing still.
Sometimes it's about finally knowing where you want to come home.
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