Free (Kindle/iTunes) Love & Gelato [YA Italy Travel Family Discovery Drama Novel]

[ATDrake]

Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch is the 1st novel in her Love & Gelato series of young adult journey of self-discovery dramas in both the literal and figurative senses (each book spotlights a different girl and country), set in Tuscany, Italy, starring a teenaged girl from Seattle goes to meet her estranged father, and is given an old diary kept by her now-deceased mother when she was a student in Florence, discovering things about her family and herself as she retraces their footsteps and finds her own path in the process, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Walker Books.

This is the featured Free Book of the Week in the iTunes UK store.

Currently free @ Amazon UK & iTunes UK (available to UK, also EU, Oceania, South America & Japan when I spot-checked assorted regional stores, YMMV) Price-drop-check linkage for Kobo, if you're feeling optimistic.

Description
The dying wish of 16-year-old Lina's mother was for her daughter to live in Tuscany and get to know her father, whom Lina has never met. "Howard is the best man I've ever known," her mother says, "he'll keep you safe." Why did her mother wait so long to tell her about him? Lina has a happy life in Seattle and doesn't want to leave.

Shortly after she arrives at Howard's home, Lina meets Sonya, who gives Lina a diary that belonged to Lina's mother, the one she had kept while she was a photography student in Florence. While Lina is living her life and exploring Tuscany with her handsome neighbour, Ren, she follows in the footsteps of her mother and gets to know her as never before. She also finds out the truth about her father. Mostly she finds out about herself.