Meet Me in Italy: Book 3
Publication Date: May 14, 2024
A destination wedding in Italy’s Lake Como brings three best friends back together to face the secrets of the past in this romantic novel from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst.
Best friends Ava, Madison, and Chelsea made a pact to reunite for each other’s weddings when their careers sent them in different directions. But after one of them makes a choice that tears the group apart, an upcoming wedding might be their last chance to heal old wounds.
Ava is about to marry the man she loves in a lavish ceremony on the shores of Lake Como, but she’s haunted by the mistakes she’s made.
Madison’s made a name for herself as an influencer in the fashion world but is threatened by a scandal impacting everything she holds dear.
And Chelsea has the perfect family she always craved, but her professional dreams have fallen by the wayside.
As they return to Italy’s gorgeous coast, the three women revisit their life-changing first trip to Lake Como during college. When Madison comes face-to-face with the college sweetheart who was at the heart of one of the most pivotal times of her life, can they forge a new way forward?
Relationships are just hard, whether family, romantic, or friendship, and Jennifer Probst powerfully captures the nuances of each in her new novel, A Wedding in Lake Como.
Ava, Maddie, and Chelsea found each other their freshman year of college and formed a bond that, with its ups and downs, its ebbs and flows, its good and bad over the years, defined their lives.
Ava defines elegance from her looks to her sense of fashion, while Chelsea is grounded, confident, and knows exactly what she wants from life. Maddie, well, Maddie feels she doesn’t really have anything to offer and is in awe of Ava and her smooth self-confidence. A true friend, though, sees through the insecurities and lack of confidence to bolster another friend and help her achieve her dreams. Maddie has dreams and the desire to be a fashion influencer but doesn’t think she’ll ever be able to achieve them. But Ava does. Ava believes in Maddie more than Maddie believes in herself. But somewhere along the way, the friendship evolves and changes, and when Riggs comes on the scene and captures Maddie’s attention and heart, dynamics begin to intensify and change.
A Wedding in Lake Como is a totally gripping, immersive, and emotional read. Maddie’s life, friendships, career, and love are experienced full throttle, carrying the reader wholeheartedly along in her wake, feeling breathless and as certain and uncertain as Maddie. Jennifer Probst’s masterful job of storytelling, pacing, and effortlessly moving between the past and the present sets the stage perfectly for what’s happening in the current day based on what’s come before. The vividly breathtaking descriptions of Lake Como are an absolute delight, and along with the hustle and bustle of New York, you feel and experience everything right along with Maddie.
Gripping until the very end, A Wedding in Lake Como delivers a deep dive into how relationships of all kinds can not only affect and define us but enhance our lives in ways we never imagined they could.
Jennifer Probst is the New York Times bestselling author of the Billionaire Builders series, the Searching For . . . series, the Marriage to a Billionaire series, the Steele Brothers series, the Stay series, and the Sunshine Sisters series. Like some of her characters, Probst, along with her husband and two sons, calls New York’s Hudson Valley home. When she isn’t traveling to meet readers, she enjoys reading, watching “shameful reality television,” and visiting a local Hudson Valley animal shelter.
