Lost and Found by Danielle Ryan, a pseudonym for Italian author Daniela Volonté (
Fantastic Fiction,
Newton Compton profile) is her standalone chick-lit-flavoured f/m romantic comedy set in Milan, Italy, and alternating the POV between the two principals, co-starring a university researcher who has a Meet Cute with the former owner of her second-hand iPad, who apparently failed to completely wipe his old files, as they start a tentative online get-to-know-each-other which becomes an increasingly close relationship which may not be able to make the leap from virtual into reality, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Head of Zeus' Aria imprint for digital first publications by newer and translated authors.
This was originally published in 2017 by Italian publisher Newton Compton as
L'amore č uno sbaglio straordinario. If you happen to like this and wish to read more from the author, we've previously gotten another one of her standalones free:
Finding You
Currently free @
Amazon UK Price-drop-check linkage for
iTunes UK,
Google Play,
Kobo, if you're feeling optimistic.
Description
Can true love prevail when the real and online worlds collide? Perfect for the fans of Miranda Dickenson and Paige Toon.
Melissa Riva works in Milan as a university researcher. After buying an iPad at auction, she finds it contains files belonging to its previous owner.
Fascinated by the beautiful photographs of romantic landscapes and views of the city, she starts her search for the previous owner. Locating him through Facebook, Melissa can't resist contacting him.
Melissa and Riccardo begin chatting online. Both of them becoming increasingly dependent on this strange relationship, though acutely aware that it's only likely to remain a virtual one.
But when real life bursts in on their digital world, they can't resist revealing their true feelings...